Monitoring continental movement patterns of the Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis through community-based surveys and remote sensing

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-142

  Ziembicki, Mark ^a,b   Woinarski, John C Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Biodiversity Conservation Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ardeotis australis; Australian Bustard; Mail survey; Monitoring; Movement strategies; NDVI; Nomadism; Partial migration; Primary productivity; Spatial information systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; GAMEBIRD; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MONITORING; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ARDEOTIS AUSTRALIS; AVES; EQUUS ASINUS; OTIDIDAE;

EID: 34249912948     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC070128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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