Regeneration of monsoon rain forest in northern Australia: the sapling bank
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Drivers of rain-forest boundary dynamics in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia: a eld assessment
Understanding the causes of savanna–forest dynamics is vital as small but widespread changes in the extent of tropical forests can have major impacts on global climate, biodiversity and human well-being. Comparison of aerial photographs for 50 rain-forest patches in Kakadu National Park had previously revealed a landscape-wide monotonic expansion of rain-forest boundaries between 1964 and 2004....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vegetation Science
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1100-9233,1654-1103
DOI: 10.2307/3236464