Reptile and arboreal marsupial response to replanted vegetation in agricultural landscapes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 609-619

  Cunningham, Ross B ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Crane, Mason ^a   Michael, Damian ^a   MacGregor, Christopher ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arboreal marsupials; Farmland biodiversity conservation; Landscape restoration; Pseudocheirus peregrinus; Remnant vegetation; Reptiles; Revegetation; Southeastern Australia; Temperate woodlands; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HABITAT QUALITY; MARSUPIAL; REPTILE; REVEGETATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MARSUPIAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REPTILE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MARSUPIALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PLANTS; REPTILES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

METATHERIA; PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS; REPTILIA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 34247218671     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1892     Document Type: Article

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