Laurent Hebert-Dufresne, University of Vermont (IMAGE)
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UVM computer scientist Laurent Hebert-Dufresne, part of team of scientists that have made a fundamental discovery about how fires on the edges of tropical forests control their shape and stability. Their study implies that when patches of tropical forest lose their natural shape it could contribute to the sudden, even catastrophic, transformation of that land from trees to grass.
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Joshua Brown/UVM
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