Relationships between herbivore abundance and browsing damage in Tasmanian eucalypt plantations

Australian Forestry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-187

  Bulinski, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHALANGERIDAE; SCATOPHAGUS ARGUS; THYLOGALE;

EID: 0042521553     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2000.10674829     Document Type: Article

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