Avian responses to the diversity and configuration of fire age classes and vegetation types across a rainfall gradient

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 318, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-20

  Sitters, Holly ^a   Christie, Fiona J ^a   Di Stefano, Julian ^a   Swan, Matthew ^a   Penman, Trent ^b   Collins, Peter C ^a   York, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Fire management; Heterogeneity; Patch diversity; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893551111     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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