Firescape ecology: how topography determines the contrasting distribution of fire and rain forest in the south‐west of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

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  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Biogeography

• Publication date

  2011-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02524.x
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