Journal article
The impacts of large-scale, low-intensity fires on the forests of continental South-east Asia
PJ Baker, S Bunyavejchewin, AP Robinson
International Journal of Wildland Fire | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2008
DOI: 10.1071/WF07147
Abstract
South-east Asia's tropical forests harbour high levels of species richness and endemism. In continental South-east Asia strong rainfall seasonality driven by the Asian monsoon lead to ground-fires during the dry season in most years. How these fires influence the region's landscape mosaic of evergreen and deciduous forests and the biodiversity they support is poorly understood. In this paper we report on the impacts of the El NioSouthern Oscillation-induced 199798 fires that burned across much of western Thailand. We compare fire effects in the three common regional forest types seasonal evergreen (SEG); mixed deciduous (MDF); and deciduous dipterocarp and use data from a 50-ha study plot to..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the National Research Council of Thailand, the Royal Forest Department and the staff of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary for enabling us to conduct this research at HKK. We would also like to thank the National Science Foundation for support through grant DEB-0075334 to Peter Ashton and Stuart Davies, the USDA Forest Service through a grant to Chad Oliver, and Sigma Xi for a Grant-in-Aid-of-Resaerch to P.J. Baker. We would also like to thank Dick Williams, Ross Bradstock, and an anonymous reviewer for insightful comments on the manuscript. This is publication 182 of the Australian Centre for Biodiversity.