Characteristics of Australia's rangelands and key design issues for monitoring biodiversity

Austral Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-15

  Smyth, Anita K ^a   James, Craig D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity monitoring; Conservation planning; Natural resource management monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; MONITORING; RANGELAND;

EID: 1542302928     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01360.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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