Avian biodiversity monitoring in Australian rangelands

Austral Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-99

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Ellis, Murray ^b   Barrett, Geoff ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental pressures; Impacts; Reporting rates; Statistical evaluation; Time series

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; MONITORING; RANGELAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GALLIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542350720     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01352.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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