The habitat requirements of four sympatric rock-dwelling macropods of the Australian monsoon tropics

Austral Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1033-1044

  Telfer, Wendy R ^a,c   Griffiths, Anthony D ^a,b   Bowman, David M J S ^a,d  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts ^*  (Australia)

^c Indigenous Land Corporation   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIC; Biogeography; Macropus; Petrogale; Rock dwelling mammal; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

CAVE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; MARSUPIAL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SYMPATRY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

MACROPUS; MACROPUS BERNARDUS; MACROPUS ROBUSTUS; MAMMALIA; PETROGALE; PETROGALE BRACHYOTIS; PETROGALE CONCINNA;

EID: 55349126784     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01873.x     Document Type: Article

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