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Location: Central Arnhem Land, a stronghold of traditional Aboriginal culture, in the Australian monsoon tropics." name="eprints.abstract" /> <meta content="2004" name="eprints.date" /> <meta content="published" name="eprints.date_type" /> <meta content="Journal of Biogeography" name="eprints.publication" /> <meta content="31" name="eprints.volume" /> <meta content="2" name="eprints.number" /> <meta content="207-223" name="eprints.pagerange" /> <meta content="10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00997.x" name="eprints.id_number" /> <meta content="TRUE" name="eprints.refereed" /> <meta content="0305-0270" name="eprints.issn" /> <meta content="http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00997.x" name="eprints.official_url" /> <meta content="Bowman, D.M.J.S. (1998) Tansley review no. 101: the impact of Aboriginal landscape burning on the Australian biota. New Phytologist, 140, 385–410. Bowman, D.M.J.S. (1999) Introduced grasses: triumph or Trojan horse. Savanna Links, 10, 6–7. Bowman, D.M.J.S. & Panton, W.J. (1993) Decline of Callitris intratropica R.T. Baker & H.G. Smith in the Northern Territory: implications for pre- and post-European colonization fire regimes. Journal of Biogeography, 20, 373–381. Bowman, D.M.J.S. & Robinson, C.J. (2002) The getting of the Nganabbarru: observations and reflections on Aboriginal buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) hunting in Northern Australia. Australian Geographer, 33, 191–206. Bowman, D.M.J.S. and Wilson, B.A. (1988) Fuel characteristics of coastal monsoon forests, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Biogeography, 15, 807–817. Bowman, D.M.J.S., Garde, M. & Saulwick, A. (2001a) Kunj-ken makka man-wurrk Fire is for kangaroos: interpreting Aboriginal accounts of landscape burning in Central Arnhem Land. Essays in honour of Rhys Jones (ed. by A. Anderson, I. Lilley and S. O’Connor), pp. 61–78. ANH Publications, Australian National University, Canberra. Bowman, D.M.J.S., Price, O., Whitehead, P.J. & Walsh, A. (2001b) The ‘wilderness effect’ and the decline of Callitris intratropica on the Arnhem Land Plateau, northern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 49, 1–8. Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J.E. & Gill, A.M. (2002) Flammable Australia: the fire regimes and biodiversity of a continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Braithwaite, R.W. (1991) Aboriginal fire regimes of monsoonal Australian in the 19th century. Search, 22, 247–249. Braithwaite, R.W. & Estbergs, J.A. (1985) Fire patterns and woody vegetation trends in the Alligator Rivers Region of northern Australia. Ecology and management of the world’s savannas (ed. by J.C. Tothill and J.J. Mott), pp. 359–364. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. Cook, G.D. & Heerdegen, R. (2001) Spatial variation in the duration of the rainy season in monsoonal Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 21, 1723–1732. Crowley, G.M. & Garnett, S.T. 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style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Bowman, David M.J.S.</span> and <span class="person_name">Walsh, A.</span> and <span class="person_name">Prior, L.D.</span> (2004) <xhtml:em>Landscape analysis of Aboriginal fire management in Central Arnhem Land, north Australia.</xhtml:em> Journal of Biogeography, 31 (2). pp. 207-223. ISSN 0305-0270</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2426/1/Bowman_Walsh_Prior_-_Fire_management_Arnhem.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2426/1/Bowman_Walsh_Prior_-_Fire_management_Arnhem.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />602Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="3137" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00997.x">http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00997.x</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">To describe the spatial and temporal pattern of landscape burning with increasing distance from Aboriginal settlements. Location: Central Arnhem Land, a stronghold of traditional Aboriginal culture, in the Australian monsoon tropics.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com </td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Fire-scar mapping, indigenous ecological knowledge, geographical information systems, landscape ecology, remote sensing, tropical savanna, wildfire management.</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270400.html">270000 Biological Sciences > 270400 Botany</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270000.html">270000 Biological Sciences</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2426</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Scholarly Publications Librarian</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">12 Nov 2007 10:12</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2426;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2426">item control page</a></p> </td></tr></table> </div> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> </tr> <tr> <td><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/footer_eprints.lbi" --> <table width="795" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" class="footer"> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au">UTAS home</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/library/">Library home</a> | <a href="/">ePrints home</a> | <a href="/contact.html">contact</a> | <a href="/information.html">about</a> | <a href="/view/">browse</a> | <a href="/perl/search/simple">search</a> | <a href="/perl/register">register</a> | <a href="/perl/users/home">user area</a> | <a href="/help/">help</a></div><br /></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><p><img src="/images/eprints/footerline.gif" width="100%" height="4" /></p></td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="68%" class="footer">Authorised by the University Librarian<br /> © University of Tasmania ABN 30 764 374 782<br /> <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/cricos/">CRICOS Provider Code 00586B</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/copyright/copyright_disclaimers.html">Copyright & Disclaimers</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/accessibility/index.html">Accessibility</a> | <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/feedback/">Site Feedback</a> </td> <td width="32%"><div align="right"> <p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><img src="http://www.utas.edu.au/shared/logos/unioftasstrip.gif" alt="University of Tasmania Home Page" width="260" height="16" border="0" align="right" /></a></p> <p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><br /> </a></p> </div></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><p> </p></td> <td><div align="right"><span class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.eprints.org/software/"><img src="/images/eprintslogo.gif" alt="ePrints logo" width="77" height="29" border="0" align="bottom" /></a></span></div></td> </tr> </table> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --> <div align="center"></div></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>