Bushfire and the malthusian guillotine: Survival of small mammals in a refuge in Nadgee Nature Reserve, south-eastern New South Wales

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 263-278

  Lunney, Daniel ^a,b   Lunney, H W M ^a   Recher, H F ^c  

^a Department of Environment and Climate Changes NSW ^*  (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 59649097732     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC080263     Document Type: Article

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