Tropical fire ecology

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Williams, R. J. , Myers, B. A. , Muller, W. J. , Duff, G. A. and Eamus, D. 1997: Leaf phenology of woody species in a northern Australian tropical savanna. Ecology 78, 2542-2558.

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