Nonlinear Effects of Stand Age on Fire Severity

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 355-370

  Taylor, Chris ^a   Mccarthy, Michael A ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Fire severity; Forests; Logging; Probit regression; South eastern Australia; Stand age

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906715928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12122     Document Type: Review

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