Do thinning and burning sites revegetated after bauxite mining improve habitat for terrestrial vertebrates?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 300-310

  Craig, Michael D ^a   Hobbs, Richard J ^b   Grigg, Andrew H ^c   Garkaklis, Mark J ^d   Grant, Carl D ^c   Fleming, Patricia A ^a   Hardy, Giles E St J ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ALCOA INC   (United States)

^d Swan Regional Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest; Jarrah; Mammal; Management; Monitoring; Rehabilitation; Reptile; Restoration; Succession

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; BURNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; MINING; REPTILE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THINNING;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA; MAMMALIA; MENETIA GREYII; MORETHIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953688818     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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