The timing and nature of floristic and structural changes during secondary succession in wet forests

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 220-231

  Serong, Merrilyn ^a   Lill, Alan ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FLORISTICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TIMBER HARVESTING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL HIGHLANDS; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 44249103565     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT06148     Document Type: Article

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