Characterization of landscape pyrodiversity in Mediterranean environments: Contrasts and similarities between south-western Australia and south-eastern France

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 557-571

  Faivre, Nicolas ^a   Roche, Philip ^a   Boer, Matthias M ^a,b   McCaw, Lachie ^c   Grierson, Pauline F ^b  

^a UR EMAX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire mosaic; Fire regime; Landscape ecology; Prescribed burning; Pyrodiversity biodiversity paradigm; Spatiotemporal analysis; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; FRANCE;

EID: 79953113922     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9582-6     Document Type: Article

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