The effects of early and late-season fires on mortality, dispersal, physiology and breeding of red-backed fairy-wrens (Malurus melanocephalus)

Wildlife Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-155

  Murphy, Stephen A ^a,b   Legge, Sarah M ^a,c   Heathcote, Joanne ^a   Mulder, Eridani ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Land management; Malurus melanocephalus; Northern Australia; Prescribed burning; Savanna

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; HEMOGLOBIN; LAND MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REGENERATION; SAVANNA; SONGBIRD;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 77951444294     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR09007     Document Type: Article

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