Old-growth forests, carbon and climate change: Functions and management for tall open-forests in two hotspots of temperate Australia

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 180-193

  Dean, C ^a,b   Wardell Johnson, G ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon; Climate change; Eucalypt; Old growth; Rainforest; Wet sclerophyll

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951822072     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500903560751     Document Type: Article

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