The disturbance of forest ecosystems: the ecological basis for conservative management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 63, Issue 2-3, 1994, Pages 247-300

  Attiwill, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0028572834     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(94)90114-7     Document Type: Article

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268. Large-scale management experiments and learning by doing
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289. A Consideration of Climax Theory: The Climax as a Population and Pattern
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291. Recovery of the rain forest of southeastern Nicaragua after destruction by Hurricane Joan
292. Seed dynamics during forest succession in Costa Rica
293. Influence of Forest Fires on the North Swedish Boreal Forest
294. The influence of dominant shrubs, fire, and time since fire on soil seed banks in mixed chaparral
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