Integrating theory into disturbance interaction experiments to better inform ecosystem management

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1325-1335

  Foster, Claire N ^a   Sato, Chloe F ^a,b   Lindenmayer, David B ^a,b   Barton, Philip S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antagonisms; Compound effects; Disturbance ecology; Fire; Grazing; Higher order effects; Multiple stressors; Synergisms; Terrestrial ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAZING PRESSURE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SYNERGISM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HERBIVORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HERBIVORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84975700664     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13155     Document Type: Article

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