Complex responses of birds to landscape-level fire extent, fire severity and environmental drivers

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 467-477

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^a   Mcburney, Lachlan ^a,b   Blair, David ^a,b   Banks, Sam C ^a,b   Driscoll, Don A ^a,b   Smith, Annabel L ^a,b   Gill, A M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Disturbance; Landscape level fire; Mega fire; Site fidelity; Succession

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LANDSCAPE; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHIZA PUSILLA; AVES;

EID: 84903362536     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12172     Document Type: Article

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