How predictable are reptile responses to wildfire?

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1086-1097

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Wood, Jeff T ^a,b   MacGregor, Christopher ^a   Michael, Damian R ^a   Cunningham, Ross B ^a   Crane, Mason ^a   Montague Drake, Rebecca ^a   Brown, Darren ^a   Muntz, Rachel ^a   Driscoll, Don A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATIONAL PARK; RAINFOREST; REPTILE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

REPTILIA;

EID: 47749120660     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16683.x     Document Type: Article

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