Burning outcomes following aggregated retention harvesting in old-growth wet eucalypt forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 276, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-173

  Scott, Robyn E ^a,b,c   Neyland, Mark G ^a,b   McElwee, David J ^a   Baker, Susan C ^a,b,c  

^a FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Firebreak; High intensity burn; Retention forestry; Seedbed; Variable retention

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FIREBREAK; HIGH-INTENSITY BURNS; SEEDBED; VARIABLE RETENTION;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; HARVESTING; REFORESTATION;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE SIZE; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEED;

AUSTRALIA; CIRCUIT BREAKERS; COMBUSTION; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST FIRES; HARVESTING; RETENTION; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84860223865     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.026     Document Type: Article

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