Fire research for conservation management in tropical savannas: Introducing the Kapalga fire experiment

Austral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-110

  Andersen, Alan N ^a   Braithwaite, Richard W ^a   Cook, Garry D ^a   Corbett, Laurie K ^a   Williams, Richard J ^a   Douglas, Michael M ^b   Gill, A Malcolm ^a   Setterfield, Samantha A ^c   Muller, Warren J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem manipulation; Fire behaviour; Fire effects; Landscape scale experiment; Savanna; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444364521     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00708.x     Document Type: Article

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