The effects of wildfire on mortality and resources for an arboreal marsupial: Resilience to fire events but susceptibility to fire regime change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Banks, Sam C ^a   Knight, Emma J ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Blair, David ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST WILDFIRE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TRICHOSURUS CUNNINGHAMI; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIRE; TREE;

METATHERIA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS CANINUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIRES; MARSUPIALIA; TREES;

EID: 79961085075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022952     Document Type: Article

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