Vegetation, fire and aboriginal impact on the mid-Holocene Moira Marshes, New South Wales, Australia

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-59

  Kenyon, Christine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Fire; Human impact; Mid Holocene; Moira Marshes; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MARSH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MOIRA MARSHES; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ATRIPLEX; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; MOIRA;

EID: 33644538320     PISSN: 00359211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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