Ageing mallee eucalypt vegetation after fire: Insights for successional trajectories in semi-arid mallee ecosystems

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 363-372

  Clarke, Michael F ^a   Avitabile, Sarah C ^a   Brown, Lauren ^a   Callister, Kate E ^a   Haslem, Angie ^a,b   Holland, Greg J ^b   Kelly, Luke T ^b   Kenny, Sally A ^a   Nimmo, Dale G ^b   Spence Bailey, Lisa M ^a   Taylor, Rick S ^a   Watson, Simon J ^b   Bennett, Andrew F ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGING POPULATION; FIRE HISTORY; MICROHABITAT; MODEL VALIDATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS COSTATA; EUCALYPTUS GRACILIS; EUCALYPTUS OLEOSA; EUCALYPTUS SOCIALIS; EUGLENA GRACILIS;

EID: 77955073456     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT10051     Document Type: Article

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