Enhancing fauna habitat in grazed native grasslands and woodlands: Use of artificially placed log refuges by fauna

Wildlife Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-71

  Michael, Damian R ^a   Lunt, Ian D ^a   Robinson, Wayne A ^a,b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; REFUGE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TERRICK TERRICK NATIONAL PARK; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

CRINIA; DIPLODACTYLUS; EUCALYPTUS; INVERTEBRATA; MENETIA GREYII; MORETHIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; VERTEBRATA; VICTORIA;

EID: 1942502305     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR02106     Document Type: Review

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