Applying landscape-ecological principles to regional conservation: The wildcountry project in Australia

Key Topics in Landscape Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 192-213

  MacKey, Brendan G ^a   Soulé, Michael E ^b   Nix, Henry A ^a   Recher, Harry F ^c   Lesslie, Robert G ^d   Williams, Jann E ^e   Woinarski, John C Z ^f   Hobbs, Richard J ^g   Possingham, Hugh P ^h  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University ^*  (United States)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Natural Systems   (Australia)

^g MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511618581.012     Document Type: Chapter

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