Fire planning for multispecies conservation: Integrating growth stage and fire severity

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 415-416, Issue , 2018, Pages 85-97

  Swan, Matthew ^a   Sitters, Holly ^a   Cawson, Jane ^a   Duff, Thomas ^a   Wibisono, Yohannes ^a,b   York, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Environment and Forestry Research and Development Institute of Manokwari   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Eucalyptus regnans; Fire management; Fire regime; Fire severity; Geometric mean abundance; Pyrodiversity; Time since fire; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SEVERITY; GEOMETRIC MEAN; PYRODIVERSITY; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FOREST FIRES; LAND USE;

ANIMALIA; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 85042364761     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.003     Document Type: Article

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