Grass-mediated capture of resource flows and the maintenance of banded mulga in a semi-arid woodland

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 331-342

  Anderson, Val Jo ^a,b   Hodgkinson, Ken C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACACIA ANEURA; ANEURA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS POPULNEA; POACEAE; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; MIMOSACEAE; MYRTACEAE;

BANDED MULGA; RESOURCE LIMITATION; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT; WATER RELATIONS;

EID: 0030613226     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT96019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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