Optimal fire management for maintaining community diversity

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 880-892

  Richards, Shane A ^a,b   Possingham, Hugh P ^a   Tizard, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Biodiversity conservation; Community succession; Decision theory; Disturbance events; Fire; Management model; Managing wildfire to promote biodiversity; Markov model; Modeling disturbance events; Stochastic; Stochastic dynamic programming; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

AUSTRALIA; NGARKAT CONSERVATION PARK; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0033178986     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0880:OFMFMC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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