Challenges and a checklist for biodiversity conservation in fire-prone forests: Perspectives from the Pacific Northwest of USA and Southeastern Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-14

  Spies, Thomas A ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^b   Gill, A Malcolm ^b   Stephens, Scott L ^c   Agee, James K ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire effects; Fire regimes; Human systems; Landscape management; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPECIES INVENTORY;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 84856217928     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.09.008     Document Type: Review

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