Silvicultural recovery in ash forests following three recent large bushfires in Victoria

Australian Forestry

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 140-155

  Fagg, Peter ^a   Lutze, Mark ^a   Slijkerman, Carolyn ^b   Ryan, Michael ^c   Bassett, Owen ^d  

^a Department of Sustainability and Environment ^*  (Australia)

^b DEPI   (Australia)

^c VicForests   (Australia)

^d Forest Solutions   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine ash; Alpine Fire; Black Saturday Fires; Eucalyptus delegatensis; Eucalyptus regnans; Forest fires; Germination; Great Divide Fire; Mountain ash; Recovery; Regeneration; Seed crops; Seeds; Silviculture; Sowing; Stocking density; Viability

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS DELEGATENSIS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; FOREST FIRES; GERMINATION; MOUNTAIN ASH; REGENERATION; SEED CROP; SILVICULTURE; SOWING; STOCKING DENSITY; VIABILITY;

CROPS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; RECOVERY; SEED;

REFORESTATION;

DEFORESTATION; EUCALYPTUS DELEGATENSIS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; FARM CROPS; FOREST FIRES; GERMINATION; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; SEEDING; SEEDS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS DELEGATENSIS; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 84889886572     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2013.848610     Document Type: Article

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