Paradise burnt: How colonizing humans transform landscapes with fire

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21234-21235

  Bowman, David M J S ^a   Haberle, Simon G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; FIRE; FIRE ECOLOGY; GRASSLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAKE SEDIMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NOTE; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; TREES;

EID: 78650728647     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016393108     Document Type: Note

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