Birds in eucalypt and pine forests: Landscape alteration and its implications for research models of faunal habitat use

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-53

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a   McIntyre, S ^b   Fischer, J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Continuum models; Environmental gradients; Habitat fragmentation; South eastern Australia; States of vegetation cover and alteration

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0037353430     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00174-X     Document Type: Article

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