Error in the inference of fire history from grasstrees

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 908-916

  Miller, Ben P ^a,b   Walshe, Terry ^a   Enright, Neal J ^a,b   Lamont, Byron B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire history; Shrubland; Validation; Western Australia; Xanthorrhoea

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUBLAND; TEMPORAL RECORD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; ENEABBA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

XANTHORRHOEA; XANTHORRHOEACEAE;

EID: 35948948294     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01779.x     Document Type: Article

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