The use of corridors by mammals in fragmented Australian eucalypt forests

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 718-726

  Downes, Sharon J ^a,b   Handasyde, Kathrine A ^a   Elgar, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPT FOREST; FOREST REMNANT; HABITAT CORRIDOR; ROADSIDE; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANTECHINUS STUARTII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0031444802     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96094.x     Document Type: Article

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