Testing hypotheses associated with bird responses to wildfire

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1967-1983

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Wood, Jeff T ^a,b   Cunningham, Ross B ^a   Macgregor, Christopher ^a   Crane, Mason ^a   Michael, Damian ^a   Montague Drake, Rebecca ^a   Brown, Darren ^a   Muntz, Rachel ^a   Gill, A Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avifauna; Biological legacies; Bird community; Disturbance; Fire history; Fire severity; Sedgeland; Southeastern Australia; Vegetation management; Wildfire event

Indexed keywords

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63249103941     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1943.1     Document Type: Article

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