Reptiles and habitat fragmentation in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia: Predictions, compositional change and faunal nestedness

Oecologia

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 116-125

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Brown, Geoff W ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Eucalyptus; Faunal subsets; Impact predictions; Landscape change

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NESTEDNESS; PREDICTION; REPTILE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; EUCALYPTUS; REPTILIA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0034944262     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100632     Document Type: Article

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