Burning in banksia woodlands: How does the fire-free period influence reptile communities?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Valentine, Leonie E ^a   Reaveley, Alice ^b   Johnson, Brent ^b   Fisher, Rebecca ^c,d   Wilson, Barbara A ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BANKSIA FOREST; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOBLEPHARUS BUCHANANII; CTENOPHORUS ADELAIDENSIS; FIRE AND FIRE RELATED PHENOMENA; FIRE FREE PERIOD; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMIERGIS QUADRILINEATA; LERISTA ELEGANS; MELALEUCA; MENETIA GREYII; MICROHABITAT; MORETHIA OBSCURA; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT LITTER; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEACEAE; REPTILE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BANKSIA; CRYPTOBLEPHARUS; CTENOPHORUS; ELAPIDAE; LERISTA; MELALEUCA; MENETIA GREYII; MORETHIA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPTILES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84859294981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034448     Document Type: Article

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