Resprouting and mortality of juvenile eucalypts in an Australian savanna: Impacts of fire season and annual sorghum

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 619-628

  Werner, Patricia A ^a,b   Franklin, Donald C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CARBOHYDRATE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVERGREEN TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GRASS; JUVENILE; MATURATION; MORTALITY; RESPROUTING; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; SORGHUM; UNDERSTORY;

AUSTRALIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 78650119757     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT10139     Document Type: Article

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