Drivers of rain-forest boundary dynamics in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia: A field assessment

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-86

  Banfai, Daniel S ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Fire ecology; Global environmental change; Tropical rain forest; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FERAL ORGANISM; FIELD SURVEY; FLORISTICS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST EDGE; FOREST FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; ORDINATION; PHENOLOGY; RAINFOREST; RANGE EXPANSION; SAVANNA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KAKADU NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 33846187135     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467406003701     Document Type: Article

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