Impacts of grazing, selective logging and hyper-aggressors on diurnal bird fauna in intact forest landscapes of the Brigalow Belt, Queensland

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 705-716

  Eyre, Teresa J ^a   Maron, Martine ^b   Mathieson, Michael T ^a   Haseler, Murray ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grazing; Habitat selection; Noisy miner; Road; Selective logging

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROAD; SELECTIVE LOGGING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BRIGALOW BELT;

AVES; CORYMBIA CITRIODORA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELIPHAGIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 69549103166     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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