Fire-driven dynamic mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert, Australia I. Fire geometry

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 373-382

  Haydon, Daniel T ^b   Friar, John K ^c   Pianka, Eric R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c 'Widbrook'   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fire shape; Great Victoria Desert; Habitat mosaics; Shape statistics; Succession; Wild fires

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HABITAT MOSAIC; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT VICTORIA DESERT;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; SPINIFEX; VICTORIA;

EID: 0034066906     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008138029197     Document Type: Article

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