The terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory: Monitoring over a 6-year period and response to fire history

Wildlife Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 587-596

  Woinarski, J C Z ^a   Armstrong, M ^a   Price, O ^a   McCartney, J ^b   Griffiths, A D ^c   Fisher, A ^a  

^a Biodiversity Conservation Unit   (Australia)

^b Litchfield National Park   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE HISTORY; MONITORING; SAMPLING; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN TERRITORY; WORLD;

ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 13844254517     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR03077     Document Type: Article

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