Australia-A model system for the development of pyrogeography

Fire Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-12

  Bowman, David M J S ^a   Murphy, Brett P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Eucalypts; Eucalyptus; Fire regimes; Natural disasters

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATURAL DISASTER;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 79955154628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0701005     Document Type: Article

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