Resources at the landscape scale influence possum abundance

Austral Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-252

  Harper, Michael J ^a,b   McCarthy, Michael A ^b   Van Der Ree, Rodney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian modelling; Brushtail possum; Habitat fragmentation; Ringtail possum; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

BASSARISCUS; BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE; PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 42149148024     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01689.x     Document Type: Article

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