Mistletoes increasing in ‘undisturbed’ forest: A symptom of forest decline caused by unnatural exclusion of fire?

Australian Forestry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-226

  Jurskis, Vic ^a   Turner, R J ^b   Jurskis, David ^a  

^a State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalypt; Fire regimes; Forest decline; Mistletoe; Undisturbed forest

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FIRES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EUCALYPT; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST DECLINE; UNDISTURBED FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; MISTLETOE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 26444618666     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2005.10674968     Document Type: Article

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