Patch mosaic burning for biodiversity conservation: A critique of the pyrodiversity paradigm

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1610-1619

  Parr, Catherine L ^a   Andersen, Alan N ^a  

^a BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Conservation management; Fire; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MOSAIC; HETEROGENEITY; PATCHINESS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SAVANNA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845537776     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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