Fire weather in the wet-dry tropics of the World Heritage Kakadu National Park, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 302-308

  Gill, A M ^a   Moore, P H R ^a   Williams, R J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fire weather; Kakadu National Park; Wet dry tropics; World heritage

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444423292     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1996.tb00612.x     Document Type: Article

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