Paying the extinction debt: Woodland birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

Emu

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-70

  Szabo, Judit K ^a,b   Vesk, Peter A ^c   Baxter, Peter W J ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LOGISTICS; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT LOFTY RANGES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 79955424217     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU09114     Document Type: Article

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