Early responses of birds to clearfelling and its alternatives in lowland wet eucalypt forest in Tasmania, Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 460-471

  Lefort, Paul ^a   Grove, Simon ^a  

^a Division of Forest Research and Development   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregated retention; BACI; Biodiversity; Birds; Forest management; Relative incidence; Silviculture; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED RETENTION; BACI; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RELATIVE INCIDENCE; SILVICULTURE; TASMANIA;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DECISION MAKING; HARVESTING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EVERGREEN FOREST; HARVESTING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; RETENTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

AVES;

EID: 67649363312     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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