Interactions between herbivores, vegetation and eucalypt tree seedlings in a plantation forestry environment

Australian Forestry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-290

  le Mar, Kirsten ^a   McArthur, Clare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Australia; Browsing damage; Eucalyptus nitens; Growth; Macropod; Marsupial; Mortality; Pademelon; Population density; Possum; Tasmania; Wallaby

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; SEED; VEGETATION;

BROWSING DAMAGE; MACROPOD; MARSUPIAL; PADEMELON; POPULATION DENSITY; WALLABY;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; EVALUATION; FORESTRY; GROWTH; HURA; MORTALITY; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; HETERONYX; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LILIOPSIDA; MACROPUS RUFOGRISEUS; MACROPUS RUFOGRISEUS RUFOGRISEUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHALANGERIDAE; THYLOGALE; THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; VOMBATUS URSINUS;

EID: 30344452015     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2005.10674978     Document Type: Article

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