| Title | The influence of fire periodicity on habitat structure |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 1991 |
| Authors | Mushinsky, HR, Gibson, DJ |
| Editor | Bell, SS, McCoy, ED, Mushinsky, HR |
| Book Title | Habitat Complexity: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space |
| Pagination | 237 -259 |
| Publisher | Chapman and Hall |
| City | London |
| Accession Number | KNZ00330 |
| Keywords | fire |
| Abstract | The ecological influence of fire on the structure of a plant community varies, as fire temperature and rate of spread are neither uniform nor consistent. The manner in which a system burns depends not only on ambient temperature, windspeed, and humidity, but also on spatial distribution of fuel loads and structural variation (type, density, and height of plants) within the vegetation |