Cyclone damage sustained by riparian revegetation sites in the Tully-Murray floodplain, Queensland, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 516-524

  Bruce, Caroline ^a   Kroon, Frederieke ^a,b   Sydes, Damon ^b,c   Ford, Andrew ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FNQ NRM Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c Cardwell Shire Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyclone; Rainforest; Rehabilitation; Riparian; Wet Tropics; Wind damage

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PIONEER SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STORM DAMAGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER; QUEENSLAND; TULLY RIVER;

HOMALANTHUS NOVOGUINEENSIS;

EID: 43449124123     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01906.x     Document Type: Article

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