Impacts of picnic areas on bird assemblages and nest predation activity within Australian eucalypt forests

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-262

  Piper, Scott D ^a   Catterall, Carla P ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Edge effects; Habitat fragmentation; Noisy miners; Recreation ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; REGIONAL PLANNING;

EDGE EFFECTS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NOISY MINERS; RECREATION ECOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

BIRD; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; NEST PREDATION; RAPTOR; RECREATIONAL FACILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TRANSECT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

AVES; CORVUS ORRU; GYMNORHINA TIBICEN; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 33750184788     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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