The causes of decline of birds of eucalypt woodlands: Advances in our knowledge over the last 10 years

Emu

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Ford, Hugh A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

extinction debt; landscape ecology; Noisy Miners; remnant vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RESEARCH WORK; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND; WOODY DEBRIS;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 79955418168     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU09115     Document Type: Review

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