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Flammable Australia : the fire regimes and biodiverstiy of a continent / edited by Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, Malcolm A. Gill.

Flammable Australia : the fire regimes and biodiverstiy of a continent / edited by Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, Malcolm A. Gill.
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ISBN 0521805910 (hardback)
Title Flammable Australia : the fire regimes and biodiverstiy of a continent / edited by Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, Malcolm A. Gill.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description viii, 462 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. A history of fire in Australia / A. Peter Kershaw, et al -- 2. Importance of a changing climate for fire regimes in Australia / Geoffrey J. Cary -- 3. Fire properties and burn patterns in heterogeneous landscapes / Wendy Catchpole -- 4. Fire regimes in landscapes: models and realities / Michael A. McCarthy and Geoffrey J. Cary -- 5. Critical life cycles of plants and animals: developing a process-based understanding of population changes in fire-prone landscapes / Robert J. Whelan, et al -- 6. Spatial variability in fire regimes: its effects on recent and past vegetation / James S. Clark, et al -- 7. Fire regimes in the spinifex landscapes of Australia / Grant E. Allan and Richard I. Southgate -- 8. The role of fire regimes in temperate lowland grasslands of south-eastern Australia / Ian D. Lunt and John W. Morgan -- 9. Fire regimes in Australian heathlands and their effects on plants and animals / David A. Keith, et al -- 10. Fire regimes and biodiversity in semi-arid mallee ecosystems / Ross A. Bradstock and Janet S. Cohn -- 11. Fire regimes in Acacia wooded landscapes: effects on functional processes and biological diversity / Ken C. Hodgkinson -- 12. Fire regimes and biodiversity in the savannas of northern Australia / Richard J. Williams, et al -- 13. Fire regimes and their effects in Australian temperate woodlands / Richard Hobbs -- 14. Fire regimes and fire management of rainforest communities across northern Australia / Jeremy Russell-Smith and Peter Stanton -- 15. Fire regimes and biodiversity of forested landscapes of southern Australia / A. Malcolm Gill and Peter C. Catling -- 16. Fire regimes in semi-arid and tropical pastoral lands: managing biological diversity and ecosystem function / James C. Noble and Anthony C. Grice -- 17. Fire management and biodiversity conservation: key approaches and principles / David A. Keith, et al -- 18. Fire regimes and biodiversity: legacy and vision / A. Malcolm Gill, et al.
Subjects Biological diversity -- Australia
Fire ecology -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Bradstock, Ross Andrew
Gill, A. M. (Arthur Malcolm)
Williams, Jann
Call number 577.2 FLA
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