Fire and birds in a Western Australian heathland

Emu

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 276-287

  Brooker, Michael G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FIRE; HEATHLAND;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHIZA CHRYSORRHOA; ACANTHIZA INORNATA; AVES; MALURUS SPLENDENS; PETROICA MULTICOLOR; TROGLODYTINAE; TURDUS;

EID: 0031773025     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU98039     Document Type: Article

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