Impacts of repeated fuel reduction burning on tree growth, mortality and recruitment in mixed species eucalypt forests of southeast Queensland, Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-27

  Guinto, Danilo F ^a   House, Alan P N ^b   Xu, Zhi Hong ^b   Saffigna, Paul G ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus spp.; Mortality; Prescribed fire; Recruitment; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

CORYMBIA INTERMEDIA; CORYMBIA VARIEGATA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS ACMENOIDES; EUCALYPTUS DREPANOPHYLLA; EUCALYPTUS MACULATA; EUCALYPTUS MICROCORYS; EUCALYPTUS PILULARIS; EUCALYPTUS RESINIFERA; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS; LOPHOSTEMON CONFERTUS; SYNCARPIA GLOMULIFERA;

EID: 0033535332     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00434-4     Document Type: Article

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