Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1008-1015

  Bowman, David M J S ^a   Murphy, Brett P ^b   Neyland, Dominic L J ^a   Williamson, Grant J ^a   Prior, Lynda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Eucalyptus; Fire management; Forest; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE; MORTALITY; SHRUB; TREE; WILDFIRE;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EUCALYPTUS; FIRE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOGO SELVAGEM; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; EUCALYPTUS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; EUCALYPTUS; FIRES; TREES;

EID: 84893123488     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12433     Document Type: Article

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