Response of a shrubland mammal and reptile community to a history of landscape-scale wildfire

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 534-543

  Doherty, Tim S ^a   Davis, Robert A ^a   Van Etten, Eddie J B ^a   Collier, Neil ^a,b   Krawiec, Josef ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AUS; fire management; lizard; prescribed fire; rodent; wildfire.

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84929097802     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF14115     Document Type: Article

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