The response of arboreal marsupials to landscape context: A large-scale fragmentation study

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 594-611

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Cunningham, Ross B ^a   Pope, Matthew L ^a   Donnelly, Christine F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arboreal marsupials; Australia, southeastern; Eucalyptus spp.; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape context; Petauroides volans; Pinus radiata; Plantation design; Pseudocheirus peregrinus; Remnant forest; Trichosurus caninus; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION; MARSUPIAL;

AUSTRALIA; TUMUT;

ACROBATES PYGMAEUS; EUCALYPTUS; PETAUROIDES VOLANS; PETAURUS AUSTRALIS; PETAURUS BREVICEPS; PETAURUS NORFOLCENSIS; PINUS RADIATA; PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS; TRICHOSURUS CANINUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0033135212     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0594:TROAMT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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