Conserving ground-dwelling beetles in an endangered woodland community: Multi-scale habitat effects on assemblage diversity

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1701-1709

  Barton, Philip S ^a,b   Manning, Adrian D ^b   Gibb, Heloise ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^b   Cunningham, Saul A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Box gum; Coarse woody debris; Coleoptera; Eucalyptus blakelyi; Eucalyptus melliodora; Heterogeneity; Multi scale; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT QUALITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

COLEOPTERA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS BLAKELYI; EUCALYPTUS MELLIODORA;

EID: 67349240175     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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