Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1048-1058

  Murphy, Brett P ^a,b   Bradstock, Ross A ^c   Boer, Matthias M ^d   Carter, John ^e   Cary, Geoffrey J ^f   Cochrane, Mark A ^a   Fensham, Roderick J ^g,h   Russell Smith, Jeremy ⁱ   Williamson, Grant J ^j   Bowman, David M J S ^j  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ Bushfires NT   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Australia; Climate; Ecological disturbance; Fire history; Fire regime; Pyrogeography; Remote sensing; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056577132     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12065     Document Type: Article

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