Resilience of an Australian savanna grassland to selective and non-selective perturbations

Austral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-135

  Walker, B H ^a   Langridge, J L ^a   McFarlane, F ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Degradation; Disturbance; Dynamics; Recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444425778     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00651.x     Document Type: Article

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