How many buffalo does it take to change a savanna?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 193-195

  Petty, Aaron M ^a   Werner, Patricia A ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Australia; Bubalus bubalis; Floodplain; Grazing fire interactions; Historical ecology; Kakadu National Park; Landscape vegetation change; Multimodel inference; Woody cover increases

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA SET; FIRE HISTORY; FLOODPLAIN; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RUMINANT; SAVANNA;

AUSTRALIA; KAKADU NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

BUBALUS BUBALIS;

EID: 72549087921     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02185.x     Document Type: Review

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