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Post-fire litter accumulation under mallee canopies in south-western NSW
Author
Travers, S.K.
Eldridge, D.J.
Publisher
Australian Rangeland Society
Publication Year
2010
Body

Fire management is an important issue for landholders in mallee areas. Relationships between eucalypt litter fuel loads and fire intensity are well researched, but basic information on fuel re-accumulation after fire is lacking. We compared differences in litter bed size beneath mallee trees with increasing time since fire, and related tree dimensions to litter bed size across a short spectrum (3, 13 and >30 years) of time since fire. As expected, all tree and litter dimensions increased significantly with time since fire with the exception of litter density. ...

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Conference Paper
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Cite this paper:
Travers, S.K.and Eldridge, D. J.(2010). Post-fire litter accumulation under mallee canopies in south-westernNSW. In: Proceedings of the 16thBiennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke (Eds D.J. Eldridge and C. Waters) (Australian Rangeland Society: Perth).
Conference Name
16th Biennial Conference, Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke, New South Wales
Keywords
fires
litter
mallee