Fire regime (recency, interval and season) changes the composition of spinifex (Triodia spp.)-dominated desert dunes

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 709-724

  Wright, Boyd R ^a   Clarke, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESERT; DUNE FIELD; FIRE HISTORY; GRASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

POACEAE; SPINIFEX; TRIODIA;

EID: 36249003341     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT06240     Document Type: Article

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