Small patches can be valuable for biodiversity conservation: Two case studies on birds in southeastern Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 129-136

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birds; Conservation; Landscape variegation; Matrix; Small patches

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; PATCH SIZE;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 0036246404     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00241-5     Document Type: Article

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