Extinction debt or habitat change? - Ongoing losses of woodland birds in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3182-3190

  Ford, Hugh A ^a   Walters, Jeffrey R ^b   Cooper, Caren B ^c   Debus, Stephen J S ^a   Doerr, Veronica A J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brown Treecreeper Hooded Robin; Dispersal; Eucalypt woodland; Habitat change; Habitat fragmentation

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DECLINE; REGROWTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

AVES; CLIMACTERIS PICUMNUS; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA;

EID: 70350571797     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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