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Hantson, Stijn; Arneth, Almut; Harrison, Sandy P.; Kelley, Douglas I.; Prentice, I. Colin; Rabin, Sam S.; Archibald, Sally; Mouillot, Florent; Arnold, Steve R.; Artaxo, Paulo; Bachelet, Dominique; Ciais, Philippe; Forrest, Matthew; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Hickler, Thomas; Kaplan, Jed O.; Kloster, Silvia; Knorr, Wolfgang; Lasslop, Gitta; Li, Fang; Mangeon, Stephane; Melton, Joe R.; Meyn, Andrea; Sitch, Stephen; Spessa, Allan; van der Werf, Guido R.; Voulgarakis, Apostolos and Yue, Chao (2016). The status and challenge of global fire modelling. Biogeosciences, 13(11) pp. 3359–3375.

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Lehsten, Veiko; Arneth, Almut; Spessa, Allan; Thonicke, Kirsten and Moustakas, Aristides (2015). The effect of fire on tree–grass coexistence in savannas: a simulation study. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25(2) pp. 137–146.

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Spessa, A. C.; Field, R. D.; Pappenberger, F.; Langner, A.; Englhart, S.; Weber, U.; Stockdale, T.; Siegert, F.; Kaiser, J. W. and Moore, J. (2015). Seasonal forecasting of fire over Kalimantan, Indonesia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 15(3) pp. 429–442.

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Page, Susan; Rieley, Jack; Hoscilo, Agata; Spessa, Allan and Weber, Ulrich (2013). Current fire regimes, impacts and the likely changes - IV: tropical Southeast Asia. In: Goldammer, Johann Georg ed. Vegetation Fires and Global Change: Challenges for Concerted International Action. Remagen-Oberwinter: Kessel Publishing House, pp. 89–100.

Spessa, Allan; van der Werf, Guido; Thonicke, Kirsten; Gomez Dans, Jose; Lehsten, Veiko; Fisher, Rose and Forrest, Matthew (2013). Modeling vegetation fires and fire emissions. In: Goldammer, Johann Georg ed. Vegetation Fires and Global Change – Challenges for Concerted International Action. A White Paper directed to the United Nations and International Organizations. Kessel, pp. 181–207.

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Page, Susan; Rieley, Jack; Hoscilo, Agata; Spessa, Allan and Weber, Ulrich (2013). Current fire regimes, impacts and the likely changes – IV: tropical Southeast Asia. In: Goldberg, Johann Georg ed. Vegetation Fires and Global Change – Challenges for Concerted International Action A White Paper directed to the United Nations and International Organizations. Kessel, pp. 89–99.

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Pfeiffer, M.; Spessa, A. and Kaplan, J. O. (2013). A model for global biomass burning in preindustrial time: LPJ-LMfire (v1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 6(3) pp. 643–685.

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Friedlingstein, Pierre; Gallego-Sala, Angela; Blyth, Eleanor; Hewer, Fiona; Seneviratne, Sonia; Spessa, Allan; Suntharalingam, Parvadha and Scholze, Marko (2012). The Earth System feedbacks that matter for climate: a land perspective. In: Cornell, Sarah E.; Prentice, I. Colin; House, Joanna I. and Downey, Catherine J. eds. Understanding the Earth System: Global Change Science for Application. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 102–128.

Feurdean, Angelica; Spessa, Allan; Magyari, Enikö; Willis, Katherine; Veres, Daniel and Hickler, Thomas (2012). Trends in biomass burning in the Carpathian region over the last 15,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 45 pp. 111–125.

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Arneth, Almut; Lehsten, Veiko; Thonicke, Kirsten and Spessa, Allan (2010). Climate–fire interactions and savanna ecosystems: a dynamic vegetation modeling study for the African continent. In: Hill, Michael and Hanan, Niall eds. Ecosystem Function in Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 463–479.

Thonicke, K.; Spessa, A.; Prentice, I. C.; Harrison, S. P.; Dong, L. and Carmona-Moreno, C. (2010). The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model. Biogeosciences, 7(6) pp. 1991–2011.

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Huntingford, C.; Booth, B. B. B.; Sitch, S.; Gedney, N.; Lowe, J. A.; Liddicoat, S. K.; Mercado, L. M.; Best, M. J.; Weedon, G. P.; Fisher, R. A.; Lomas, M. R.; Good, P.; Zelazowski, P.; Everitt, A. C.; Spessa, A. C. and Jones, C. D. (2010). IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial impacts of a changing climate. Geoscientific Model Development, 3(2) pp. 679–687.

Lehsten, V.; Tansey, K.; Balzter, H.; Thonicke, K.; Spessa, A.; Weber, U.; Smith, B. and Arneth, A. (2009). Estimating carbon emissions from African wildfires. Biogeosciences, 6(3) pp. 349–360.

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Schultz, Martin G.; Heil, Angelika; Hoelzemann, Judith J.; Spessa, Allan; Thonicke, Kirsten; Goldammer, Johann G.; Held, Alexander C.; Pereira, Jose M. C. and van het Bolscher, Maarten (2008). Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22(2), article no. GB2002.