From clearfell coupe to old-growth forest: Succession of bird assemblages in Tasmanian lowland wet eucalypt forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 459-468

  Hingston, Andrew B ^a,b   Grove, Simon ^a  

^a Division of Forest Research and Development   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Clearcutting; Forest management; Silviculture; Stand age; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITIES; BIRD CONSERVATION; BIRD SPECIES; CHRONOSEQUENCES; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; EUCALYPT FOREST; FOREST LANDSCAPE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NATIVE SPECIES; OLD-GROWTH FOREST;

BIRDS; SURVEYS;

FORESTRY;

BIRD; CLEARCUTTING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGROWTH; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

BIRDS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE; SURVEYS; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

AVES; MELIPHAGIDAE; MENURA NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 72649090280     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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