The South East Queensland Forests Agreement: Lessons for biodiversity conservation

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-13

  McAlpine, C A ^a   Peterson, A ^a   Norman, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Plan Nat Rsrc   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

EID: 17644387192     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/pc050003     Document Type: Article

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