Rapid responses to facilitate ecological discoveries from major disturbances

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 527-532

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Likens, Gene E ^b   Franklin, Jerry F ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77954514466     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/090184     Document Type: Review

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