Survey design for precise fire management conservation targets:

Ecological Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 35-45

  Sitters, Holly ^a   Di Stefano, Julian ^a   Wills, Timothy ^b   Swan, Matthew ^a   York, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GHD PTY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

biodiversity conservation; ecological monitoring; fire management; land management; prescribed burning; sampling design; sampling framework; simulation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; EXTINCTION RISK; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SURVEY DESIGN;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; VICTORIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FIRES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VICTORIA;

EID: 85040249081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1624     Document Type: Review

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