Site-specific climate analysis elucidates revegetation challenges for post-mining landscapes in eastern Australia

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6545-6557

  Audet, P ^a   Arnold, S ^a   Lechner, A M ^a,b   Baumgartl, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; ECOREGION; FLOODING; LAND MANAGEMENT; MINING; NDVI; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REVEGETATION; SEASONALITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84885718705     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-6545-2013     Document Type: Article

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