Habitat models for the four-fingered skink (Carlia tetradactyla) at the microhabitat and landscape scale

Wildlife Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 495-504

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Lindenmayer, David ^a   Cowling, Ann ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; LIZARD; MICROHABITAT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

AMPHIBIA; ARANEAE; BOS TAURUS; CARLIA; CARLIA TETRADACTYLA; OVIS ARIES; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0347567068     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR02096     Document Type: Article

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