Diggings as a population index for the eastern barred bandicoot

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1378-1383

  Mallick, Stephen A ^a   Driessen, Michael M ^a   Hocking, Gregory J ^a  

^a Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bandicoots; Digging counts; Eastern barred bandicoot; Endangered species; Marsupial; Perameles gunnii; Peramelidae; Population declines; Population index; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

DIGGING; EASTERN BARRED BANDICOOT; ENDANGERED MAMMAL; POPULATION INDEX;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PERAMELES GUNNII; PERAMELIDAE;

EID: 0031431274     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802141     Document Type: Article

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