Landscape modulators and resource accumulation in a post-fire eucalypt woodland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 285, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-19

  Travers, Samantha K ^a   Eldridge, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus dumosa; Eucalyptus socialis; Fire; Leaf litter; Patch; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS DUMOSA; EUCALYPTUS SOCIALIS; LEAF LITTER; PATCH; WOODY DEBRIS;

DEBRIS; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; FORESTRY;

FIRES;

ACCUMULATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LEAF LITTER; MONOCOTYLEDON; WOODLAND; WOODY DEBRIS;

ECOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS; FIBER DEBRIS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST LITTER;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS SOCIALIS;

EID: 84865749979     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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