Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1908-1918

  Trauernicht, Clay ^a,b   Brook, Barry W ^c   Murphy, Brett P ^d   Williamson, Grant J ^b   Bowman, David M J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled human and natural systems; Fire ecology; Heterogeneity; Indigenous burning; Landscape burning; Patch mosaic burning; Pyrodiversity

Indexed keywords

CALLITRIS; CALLITRIS INTRATROPICA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84928772110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1494     Document Type: Article

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