Changes in understorey plant species richness following logging and prescribed burning in shrubby dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-210

  Penman, Trent D ^a,b   Binns, Doug L ^c   Shiels, Roy J ^a   Allen, Ruth M ^a   Kavanagh, Rodney P ^a  

^a Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Forestry; Fuel reduction; Prescribed fire

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLORISTICS; FUELWOOD; HETEROGENEITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); PRESCRIBED BURNING; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 40149095391     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01809.x     Document Type: Article

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