Biotic and abiotic effects of human settlements in the wildland-urban interface

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 429-437

  Bar Massada, Avi ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^b   Stewart, Susan I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

fire; fragmentation; invasive species; wildland urban interface; wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900397765     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu039     Document Type: Review

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