Bird populations in native forest patches in south-eastern Australia: The roles of patch width, matrix type (age) and matrix use

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1045-1058

  Tubelis, Dárius Pukenis ^a,c   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Cowling, Ann ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bird species; Forest management; Habitat edge; Habitat juxtaposition; Landscape matrix; Patch; Patch width; Vegetation boundary

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; RADIATA;

EID: 34547160795     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9090-x     Document Type: Article

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