Soil seedbanks in natural and restored box-ironbark forests at Stawell Gold Mine, Victoria

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-20

  Comino, E ^a,b   Miller, B P ^b   Enright, N J ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Gold mine; Heat; Restoration; Revegetation; Seedling emergence; Smoke; Soil seedbank

Indexed keywords

GOLD MINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; STAWELL MINE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ACACIA; ACACIA PYCNANTHA; VICTORIA;

EID: 3843092915     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC040009     Document Type: Article

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