Fire regimes and biodiversity: The effects of fragmentation of southeastern Australian eucalypt forests by urbanisation, agriculture and pine plantations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 261-278

  Gill, A Malcolm ^a   Williams, Jann E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fire; Forests; Fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; PINUS RADIATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030236638     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(96)03763-2     Document Type: Article

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