Impacts of livestock grazing and tree clearing on birds of woodland and riparian habitats

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 504-514

  Martin, Tara G ^a,b,c   McIntyre, S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian GLM; Cattle grazing; Grassy eucalypt woodland; Grazing management; Native pasture; Noisy Miner; Woodland bird conservation; Zero inflated models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; CATTLE; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRAZING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; PASTORALISM; POPULATION DENSITY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEENSLAND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AVES; BOS; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 33947500800     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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