Fire modelling in Tasmanian buttongrass moorlands. III * Dead fuel moisture

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 241-253

  Marsden Smedley, Jon B ^a,b   Catchpole, Wendy R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Fire Management Section Parks W   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire behaviour models; Fire management; Fuel moisture models; Gymnoschoenus; Moorland; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035597052     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF01025     Document Type: Article

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