Conservation value of low fire frequency in tropical savannas: Ants in monsoonal northern Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 497-503

  Andersen, Alan N ^a   Hoffmann, Benjamin D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ant biodiversity; Fire exclusion; Fire management; Old growth forest; Territory Wildlife Park

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONSOON; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PITFALL TRAP; SAVANNA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; TERRITORY WILDLIFE PARK;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79958727330     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02151.x     Document Type: Article

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