Dispossession, degradation and extinction: Environmental history in arid Australia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 295-308

  Letnic, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aridity; Australia; Biodiversity; Management ecology

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LAND MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034099977     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008913826686     Document Type: Article

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