Forecasting the impacts of habitat fragmentation. Evaluation of species-specific predictions of the impact of habitat fragmentation on birds in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-29

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

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Deakin University Rusden Campus   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birds; Despotic species; Forests; Habitat fragmentation; Model; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FORECASTING METHOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 0342748378     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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