Fire and vegetation in a temperate peat bog: Implications for the management of threatened species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 138-148

  Norton, David A ^a   De Lange, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE; WETLAND;

NEW ZEALAND;

CORYBAS; CORYBAS CARSEI; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 0037324341     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01131.x     Document Type: Article

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