Large fires, fire effects and the fire-regime concept

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 688-695

  Gill, A Malcolm ^a,c   Allan, Grant ^b  

^a BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Bushfires Cncl North Territ   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Catchment; Interval; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849092140     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07145     Document Type: Article

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