The importance of ecological scale for wildlife conservation in naturally fragmented environments: A case study of the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-22

  Murray, J V ^a   Low Choy, S ^b   McAlpine, C A ^a   Possingham, H P ^a   Goldizen, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Habitat complexity; Landscape context; Scale; Species environment relationship; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARSUPIAL; NATURE CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

PETROGALE; PETROGALE PENICILLATA;

EID: 36549088958     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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