New Zealand's exotic plantation forests as habitats for threatened indigenous species

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-355

  Pawson, Steve M ^a   Ecroyd, Chris E ^a   Seaton, Richard ^b   Shaw, William B ^c   Brockerhoff, Eckehard G ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b Golder Associates (NZ) Limited   (New Zealand)

^c WILDLAND CONSULTANTS LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fauna; Flora; Indigenous biodiversity; Landscape matrix; Pinus radiata; Red list

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RED LIST; VULNERABILITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; PARADIGM SHIFT;

NEW ZEALAND;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 77957232771     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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