Environmental gradients across four rainforest-open forest boundaries in northeastern Queensland

Austral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-254

  Turton, S M ^a,b   Sexton, G J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Coop Res Ctr Trop RE/M ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Ecotone; Fire; Microclimate; Nutrients; Succession; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444427150     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1996.tb00606.x     Document Type: Article

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