Post-fire recovery of revegetated woodland communities in south-eastern Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 300-312

  Pickup, Melinda ^a,b   Wilson, Susie ^a   Freudenberger, David ^a   Nicholls, Nick ^c   Gould, Lori ^a   Hnatiuk, Sarah ^a   Delandre, Jeni ^a  

^a GREENING AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Post fire survival; Revegetation; Soil function; Vegetation vigour; Woodland

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; SEEDING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VIGOR; WILDFIRE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84876801371     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02404.x     Document Type: Article

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