Sustainable harvest rates of ironwood, Erythrophleum chlorostachys, in the Northern Territory, Australia

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 821-826

  Cook, Garry D ^a   Taylor, Robert J ^b,c   Williams, Richard J ^a   Banks, John C G ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

^c Kimberley Department of Defence   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; VEGETATION TYPE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ERYTHROPHLEUM CHLOROSTACHYS;

EID: 29144465579     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT05003     Document Type: Article

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