The combined effects of remnant vegetation and tree planting on farmland birds

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 742-752

  Cunningham, Ross B ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Crane, Mason ^a   Michael, Damian ^a   MacGregor, Christopher ^a   Montague Drake, Rebecca ^a   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Farmland birds; Landscape restoration; Native remnant woodlands; Replanted native vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SHEEP; VEGETATION COVER; VULNERABILITY; WHEAT; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; OVIS ARIES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 44949246382     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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