Ecological implications of standard fire-mapping approaches for fire management of the World Heritage Area, Fraser Island, Australia

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 381-393

  Srivastava, Sanjeev Kumar ^a   King, Lee ^b   Mitchell, Chris ^c   Wiegand, Aaron ^a   Carter, R W ^a   Shapcott, Alison ^a   Russell Smith, Jeremy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b Environmental Operations Infrastructure Services   (Australia)

^c Department of Environment and Resources Management ^*  (Australia)

^d Bushfires NT   (Australia)

Author keywords

dNBR; dry sclerophyll woodland; fire regime; NBR; patch mosaic; patchiness; wallum heath

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878032764     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF11037     Document Type: Article

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