Home-range of the Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) in dry sclerophyll forest

Emu

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-184

  Soderquist, Todd ^a,c   Gibbons, Dale ^b  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NSW Department of Environment and Conservation ^*  (Australia)

^c OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

MAMMALIA; NINOX STRENUA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 34548490948     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU06055     Document Type: Article

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