Comparative influence of forest management and habitat structural factors on the abundances of hollow-nesting bird species in subtropical Australian eucalypt forest

Environmental Management

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 547-559

  Smyth, Anita ^a,b   Mac Nally, Ralph ^c   Lamb, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cavity nesting birds; Ecologically sustainable forest management; Fire regimes; Hierarchical partitioning; Timber harvesting

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

FOREST FIRES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; SELECTIVE LOGGING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOGGING; NESTING; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUCALYPTUS; FIRE; FORESTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TREE;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUCALYPTUS; FIRES; FORESTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TREES;

EID: 0036781871     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-002-2678-7     Document Type: Article

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