Fire management to combat disease: Turning interactions between threats into conservation management

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 873-882

  Regan, Helen M ^a   Keith, David A ^b,c   Regan, Tracey J ^d   Tozer, Mark G ^b   Tootell, Naomi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Long lived resprouter; Phytophthora cinnamomi; Population dynamics; Xanthorrhoea resinosa

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GERMINATION; GRASS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TIME;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TIME FACTORS;

PHYTOPHTHORA CINNAMOMI; XANTHORRHOEA RESINOSA;

EID: 80054017012     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2029-6     Document Type: Article

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