Regional patterns of mammal abundance and their relationship to landscape variables in eucalypt woodlands near Darwin, northern Australia

Wildlife Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 435-446

  Price, Owen ^a   Rankmore, Brooke ^a,b   Milne, Damian ^a   Brock, Chris ^a   Tynan, Charmaine ^a   Kean, Louise ^a   Roeger, Lisa ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN TERRITORY; WORLD;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 25144511020     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR04033     Document Type: Review

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