From unburnt to salvage logged: Quantifying bird responses to different levels of disturbance severity

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1626-1636

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Blair, David ^a   Wood, Jeff ^a   Banks, Sam C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

mountain ash; salvage logging; variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLEARCUTTING; DICOTYLEDON; DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS REGNANS; SORBUS;

EID: 85044281414     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13137     Document Type: Article

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