Fire severity and landscape context effects on arboreal marsupials

Biological Conservation

Volumn 167, Issue , 2013, Pages 137-148

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a,b   Blanchard, W ^a   McBurney, L ^a,b   Blair, D ^a   Banks, S C ^a,b   Driscoll, D ^a,b   Smith, A L ^a,b   Gill, A M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cavity dependent arboreal marsupials; Fire regime; Forest management; Relative disturbance sensitivity; South eastern Australia

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARSUPIAL;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84882939182     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.028     Document Type: Article

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