Zero-fire: Not possible nor desirable in the Cerrado of Brazil
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The manuscript was totally conceived and written by the author, GD.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to my former PhD students, Natashi A.L. Pilon and Mário G.B. Cava, and also to Samuel Flake, for their helpful comments on the draft of this manuscript, later improved by Fernando Silveira and an anonymous reviewer. I thank especially Dora Souza Dias, for preparing the figures. This material is partially based upon research supported by the US National Science Foundation - NSF (grant # DEB1354943). The author was funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e
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