Fire is a key element in the landscape-scale habitat requirements and global population status of a threatened bird: The Mallee Emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 432-445

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Clarke, Michael ^b   Clarke, Rohan ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird; Distance sampling; Ecological niche factor analysis (EFNA); GIS; Habitat specialist; Threatened

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIRE; GIS; PASSERINE; POPULATION SIZE; RED LIST; VEGETATION TYPE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STIPITURUS MALLEE; TRIODIA; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 58149473723     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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