Forest expansion and grassland contraction within a Eucalyptus savanna matrix between 1941 and 1994 at Litchfield National Park in the Australian monsoon tropics

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 535-548

  Bowman, D M J S ^a   Walsh, A ^a   Milne, D J ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Territory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Eucalyptus savanna; GIS; Grassland; Landscape change; Monsoon tropics; Northern Australia; Tropical forest; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FOREST; SAVANNA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 0034824995     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.2001.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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