The abundance of a threatened arboreal marsupial in relation to anthropogenic disturbances at local and landscape scales in Mediterranean-type forests in south-western Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 463-476

  Wayne, A F ^a,c   Cowling, A ^b   Lindenmayer, D B ^a   Ward, C G ^c   Vellios, C V ^c   Donnelly, C F ^b   Calver, M C ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Science Division   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); MARSUPIAL; PREDATOR CONTROL; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA; METATHERIA; PSEUDOCHEIRUS OCCIDENTALIS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 28544440060     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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