Structural features of old-growth Australian montane ash forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 189-204

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a   Cunningham, R B ^a   Donnelly, C F ^a   Franklin, J F ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest understorey; Human disturbance; Logging; Montane ash forest; Natural disturbance; Old growth attributes; South eastern Australia; Stand structure; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; REGENERATION; STAND STRUCTURE; UNDERSTORY;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; EUCALYPTUS DELEGATENSIS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; NOTHOFAGUS CUNNINGHAMII;

EID: 0034283921     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00257-1     Document Type: Article

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