Landscape-scale conservation of an endangered migrant: The Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) in its winter range

Biological Conservation

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 335-343

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Horrocks, Gregory ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; Landscape; Lathamus discolor; Migrant; Swift Parrot

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; OVERWINTERING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; ACACIA PYCNANTHA; APUS APUS; AVES; EUCALYPTUS; LATHAMUS DISCOLOR; MANORBIN; MANORBIN MELANOCEPHALA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELIPHAGIDAE; PSITTACIDAE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0013692385     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00100-7     Document Type: Article

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