Canopy removal restores habitat quality for an endangered snake in a fire suppressed landscape

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2005, Pages 894-900

  Webb, Jonathan K ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a   Pringle, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; SNAKE; THERMOREGULATION; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MORTON NATIONAL PARK; NEW SOUTH WALES;

GEKKO; HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; OEDURA LESUEURII; REPTILIA;

EID: 30344443068     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2005)005[0894:CRRHQF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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