Firewood harvest from forests of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Part 1: Long-term, sustainable supply available from native forests

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1206-1219

  West, P W ^a,b   Cawsey, E M ^c   Stol, J ^c   Freudenberger, D ^d  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SciWest Consulting   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d GREENING AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Eucalypt; Firewood; Murray Darling basin; Silviculture; Sustained yield

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CURING; DEBRIS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MAINTENANCE; METAL RECOVERY; OVENS; STOVES;

EUCALYPT; FIREWOOD; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINED YIELD;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; EVERGREEN TREE; HARVESTING; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; CURING; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; MAINTENANCE; OVENS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 56349104156     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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