Postcards from the past: Charting the landscape-scale conversion of tropical Australian savanna to closed forest during the 20th century

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1253-1266

  Brook, Barry W ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Generalised linear modelling; Geographic information systems; Historical ecology; Indigenous fire use; Landscape ecology; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 33749340541     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-0018-7     Document Type: Article

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