Potential impact of harvesting for the long-term conservation of arboreal marsupials

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-109

  Pausas, Juli G ^a,b   Austin, Mike P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arboreal marsupials; Forest management; Harvesting; Landscape; Logging; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MARSUPIAL;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 0031874831     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007984630592     Document Type: Article

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