Australian tropical forest canopy crane: New tools for new frontiers

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-9

  Stork, Nigel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Biodiversity; Canopy cranes; Cyclones; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; CARBON FLUX; CRANE; CYCLONE; FRONTIER REGION; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DAINTREE; QUEENSLAND;

GRUIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846559357     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01740.x     Document Type: Article

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