Time-since-fire and inter-fire interval influence hollow availability for fauna in a fire-prone system

Biological Conservation

Volumn 152, Issue , 2012, Pages 212-221

  Haslem, Angie ^a   Avitabile, Sarah C ^a   Taylor, Rick S ^a   Kelly, Luke T ^b,c   Watson, Simon J ^b,d   Nimmo, Dale G ^b   Kenny, Sally A ^a   Callister, Kate E ^a   Spence Bailey, Lisa M ^a   Bennett, Andrew F ^b   Clarke, Michael F ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fauna habitat; Fire chronosequence; Fire frequency; Fire regime; Tree cavity

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LIMITING FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84862694428     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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