Fire regimes in mountain ash forest: Evidence from forest age structure, extinction models and wildlife habitat

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 193-203

  McCarthy, Michael A ^a   Malcolm Gill, A ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Eucalyptus regnans; Fire interval; Hollow bearing trees; South eastern Australia

Indexed keywords

FIRE; FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SILVICULTURE;

AGE STRUCTURE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING;

EUCALYPTUS REGNANS;

EID: 0345580818     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00066-3     Document Type: Article

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