Distinguishing area and habitat heterogeneity effects on species richness: Birds in Victorian buloke remnants

Austral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-232

  MacNally, R ^a   Watson, D M ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocasuarina luehmanni; Diversity; Multiscale analysis; Panning sampling; Scale; Wimmera; Zoom sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444367744     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1997.tb00663.x     Document Type: Article

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