Identifying the location of fire refuges in wet forest ecosystems

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2337-2348

  Berry, Laurence E ^a   Driscoll, Don A ^a   Stein, John A ^a   Blanchard, Wade ^a   Banks, Sam C ^a   Bradstock, Ross A ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Disturbance ecology; Fire refuges; Forest management; Habitat fragmentation; High severity fires; Landscape modeling; Model validation; Topography; Victorian Central Highlands; Wet montane forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FAUNA; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTANE FOREST; PREDICTION; REFUGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [VICTORIA]; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84937727286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1699.1     Document Type: Article

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