Fire impacts recruitment more than survival of small-mammals in a tropical savanna

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Griffiths, Anthony D ^a,b   Brook, Barry W ^c  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Land Resource Management ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antechinus bellus; Apparent survival; Australia; Capture mark recapture; Dasyurus hallucatus; Fire experiment; Frequency; Intensity; Isoodon macrourus; Melomys burtoni; Recruitment; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

ANTECHINUS BELLUS; DASYURUS HALLUCATUS; ISOODON MACROURUS; MAMMALIA; MELOMYS BURTONI; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; RODENTIA; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 84927947451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00519.1     Document Type: Article

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