Temporal trends in mammal responses to fire reveals the complex effects of fire regime attributes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 557-573

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^a   MacGregor, Christopher ^a,b   Barton, Philip ^a,b   Banks, Sam C ^a,b   Crane, Mason ^a   Michael, Damian ^a   Okada, Sachiko ^a   Berry, Laurence ^a,b   Florance, Daniel ^a   Gill, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire regime variables; Fire time interaction; Hurdle models; Invisible mosaic; Mammals; Southeastern Australia; Temporal responses to fire

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE; FIRE HISTORY; HABITAT MOSAIC; HETEROGENEITY; MAMMAL; NATIVE SPECIES; RODENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; MAMMAL; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MAMMALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84969764522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0575     Document Type: Article

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