Fire management implications of fuel loads and vegetation structure in rehabilitated sand mines near Newcastle, Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 269-278

  Chaffey, C J ^a   Grant, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire management; Fuel loads; Mining rehabilitation; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034678846     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00171-1     Document Type: Article

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