Immediate and short-term responses of bird and mammal assemblages to a subalpine wildfire in the Snowy Mountains, Australia

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2006

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Green, Ken
Sanecki, Glenn

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Blackwell Science Asia

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Over 35 days in January-February 2003, wildfires burnt across much of the subalpine/alpine landscape of south-eastern Australia, including about 70% of the land above 1500 m in the Snowy Mountains. At the time of the fire, studies of two subalpine faunal

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Keywords: bird; fauna; global warming; immigration; landscape; mammal; montane forest; subalpine environment; wildfire; Australasia; Australia; Australian Alps; Snowy Mountains; Antechinus swainsonii; Aves; Mammalia; Mastacomys fuscus; Rattus fuscipes Alpine; Bird migration; Fox; Small mammal; Snow

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Austral Ecology

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