Microclimate of daytime den sites in a tropical possum: Implications for the conservation of tropical arboreal marsupials

Animal Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 281-287

  Isaac, Joanne L ^a   De Gabriel, J L ^a,b   Goodman, B A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Endemic mammal; Eucalypt; Rainforest; Tree hollow; Wet Tropics Bioregion

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT LOSS; MARSUPIAL; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT; PREDATION RISK; RAINFOREST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48649083364     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2008.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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