Estimating forest habitat complexity in relation to time since fire

Austral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 344-351

  Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Catling, Peter C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Eucalyptus; Forest structure; Generalized linear model; Ground dwelling mammals; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0002907164     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2000.tb00040.x     Document Type: Article

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