Nestedness in fragmented landscapes: Birds of the box-ironbark forests of south-eastern Australia

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 651-660

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Horrocks, Gregory ^a   Bennett, Andrew F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

(SOUTHEAST); AUSTRALIA;

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MANORINA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 0036940073     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250602.x     Document Type: Article

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