Influence of fire history on small mammal distributions: Insights from a 100-year post-fire chronosequence

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-473

  Kelly, Luke T ^a   Nimmo, Dale G ^a   Spence Bailey, Lisa M ^b   Haslem, Angie ^b   Watson, Simon J ^a   Clarke, Michael F ^b   Bennett, Andrew F ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Habitat accommodation model; Mallee; Succession; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARNIVORE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; EVERGREEN TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GRASS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEMIARID REGION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION TYPE;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; NINGAUI; NINGAUI YVONNAE;

EID: 79953772291     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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