The characteristics of six species of living hollow-bearing trees and their importance for arboreal marsupials in the dry sclerophyll forests of southeast Queensland, Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 182, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 75-92

  Wormington, Kevin Ray ^a   Lamb, David ^b   McCallum, Hamish Ian ^b   Moloney, Damien John ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Forest management; Hollow formation; Hollow size; Retained trees

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; WOOD;

HOLLOW-BEARING TREES;

FORESTRY;

DRY FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MARSUPIAL; TREEHOLE;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

CORYMBIA CITRIODORA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CREBRA; METATHERIA;

EID: 0042853262     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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