Site-to-site variation in the demography of a fire-affected perennial, Acacia suaveolens, at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-47

  Warton, David I ^a,b   Wardle, Glenda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Matrix projection model; Randomization test; Size; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SHRUB; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; ACACIA SUAVEOLENS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0037331749     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2003.01246.x     Document Type: Article

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