Putting pyrodiversity to work for animal conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 952-955

  Kelly, Luke T ^a   Brotons, Lluís ^b   McCarthy, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Forest Science Center of Catalonia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; FOREST FIRE; GENETIC ISOLATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; INVERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; INVERTEBRATES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 85016326105     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12861     Document Type: Article

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