Survival and recruitment of seedlings and suckers of trees and shrubs of the Australian arid zone following habitat management and the outbreak of Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD)

Austral Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 585-599

  Denham, Andrew J ^a   Auld, Tony D ^a  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demography; Grazing; Rangeland; RCD; Recruitment; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; GRAZING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAGOMORPH; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

ACACIA; ACACIA LIGULATA; ALECTRYON OLEIFOLIUS; ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; CASUARINA; CASUARINA PAUPER; CATOSTOMIDAE; DODONAEA VISCOSA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; SANTALACEAE; SANTALUM; SANTALUM ACUMINATUM;

EID: 7044226439     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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