Fire history and soil gradients generate floristic patterns in Montane sedgelands and wet heaths of Gibraltar Range National Park

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-38

  Williams, Paul Richard ^a,b   Clarke, Peter John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Heaths; Resource gradients; Species richness; Time since fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845432856     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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