Using a state-and-transition approach to manage endangered Eucalyptus albens (White Box) woodlands

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 771-783

  Spooner, Peter G ^a   Allcock, Kimberly G ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation networks; Fragmentation; Grazing; Remnant woodlands; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION NETWORKS; GRAZING; REMNANT WOODLANDS; THRESHOLDS;

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRAZING; HABITAT RESTORATION; TREE; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUCALYPTUS; EXOTIC SPECIES; GRAZING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION; WEED;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

CONSERVATION; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS ALBENS;

EID: 33749531521     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0133-2     Document Type: Article

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