Woodland bird declines in the Murray-Darling Basin: Are there links with floodplain change?

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-327

  McGinness, Heather M ^a   Arthur, Anthony D ^a   Reid, Julian R W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

flood regime; foodweb subsidies; habitat degradation; primary productivity; secondary productivity; terrestrial fauna

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77956702021     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ10016     Document Type: Article

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