Multi-scaled habitat considerations for conserving urban biodiversity: Native reptiles and small mammals in Brisbane, Australia

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1013-1028

  Garden, Jenni G ^a,b   McAlpine, Clive A ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Landscape composition; Landscape configuration; Spatial modelling; Structural complexity; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LINEARITY; MOTORWAY; NATIVE SPECIES; PARK DESIGN; PATCH SIZE; REPTILE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77954428038     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9476-z     Document Type: Article

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