Response of Montane wet sclerophyll forest understorey species to fire: Evidence from high and low intensity fires

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-73

  Campbell, Monica L ^a   Clarke, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Obligate seeding; Rainforest; Resprouting; Seedling Recruitment; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845399747     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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