Past and future trajectories of forest loss in New Zealand

Biological Conservation

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 312-325

  Ewers, Robert M ^a,b,c   Kliskey, Andrew D ^a   Walker, Susan ^d   Rutledge, Daniel ^e   Harding, Jon S ^a   Didham, Raphael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Extinction threshold; Habitat loss; Landcover change; Landscape threshold; Restoration targets

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONIZATION; FOREST CLEARANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL FERTILITY; TREELINE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 33749052932     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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