Resprouting of saplings following a tropical rainforest fire in north-east Queensland, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 817-826

  Marrinan, Matthew J ^a   Edwards, Will ^a   Landsberg, Jill ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; El Ni o; Fire; Rainforest; Resprouting

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; SMITHFIELD CONSERVATION PARK;

EID: 31344433133     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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