Fire severity, feedback effects and resilience to alternative community states in forest assemblages

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 265, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-54

  Knox, K J E ^a   Clarke, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate biomes; Fire ecology; Fire severity; Rainforest; Resilience; Sclerophyll forest

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE BIOMES; FIRE ECOLOGY; FIRE SEVERITY; RAINFOREST; RESILIENCE; SCLEROPHYLL FORESTS;

ECOLOGY; FLAMMABILITY; FORESTRY; STATE FEEDBACK; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

BIOME; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FLORISTICS; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RAINFOREST;

ECOLOGY; FEEDBACK; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; PLANTS; RESILIENCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 82055200032     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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