Contemporary fire regimes in a fragmented and an unfragmented landscape: Implications for vegetation structure and persistence of the fire-sensitive malleefowl

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-194

  Parsons, Blair C ^a,b,d   Gosper, Carl R ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^d Outback Ecology   (Australia)

Author keywords

bird; chronosequence; habitat; remote sensing; senescence

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; AVES; LEIPOA OCELLATA;

EID: 79953267499     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09099     Document Type: Article

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