Biodiversity indicators in semi-arid, agricultural Western Australia

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-389

  Abensperg Traun, M ^a   Arnold, G W ^a   Steven, D E ^a   Smith, G T ^a   Atkins, L ^a   Viveen, J J ^b   Gutter, M ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abandoned Farmland; Arthropods; Biodiversity indicators; Correlation Analysis; Gimlet Eucalyptus salubris; Heterogeneity; Livestock grazing; Lizards; Plants; Principal Component Regression; Shrublands; Vegetation structure; Western Australia; Woodlands

Indexed keywords

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EID: 0030319014     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/pc960375     Document Type: Article

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