Prescribed burning in the Southern Mt. Lofty ranges: How and why is the decision to burn made?

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

Volumn 115, Issue , 2009, Pages 29-35

  Richards, Noel W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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