Developing a savanna burning emissions abatement methodology for tussock grasslands in high rainfall regions of northern Australia

Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-187

  Russell Smith, Jeremy ^a,b   Yates, Cameron ^a   Evans, Jay ^a   Desailly, Mark ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cape York; Fire patchiness; Fire regime; Fuel accumulation; Fuel combustion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012199887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23463775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17138/tgft(2)175-187     Document Type: Article

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