Fire responses in four rare plant species at Gibraltar Range National Park, Northern Tablelands, NSW

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-62

  Croft, Peter ^a   Hofmeyer, Damien ^a   Hunter, John T ^b  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Fire response; Obligate seeding; Rare species; Resprouting

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; GREVILLEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PERSOONIA; TELOPEA; WALLABIA BICOLOR;

EID: 33845425960     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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