Resilience of New Zealand indigenous forest fragments to impacts of livestock and pest mammals

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-95

  Dodd, Mike ^a   Barker, Gary ^b   Burns, Bruce ^c   Didham, Raphael ^d,e   Innes, John ^b   King, Carolyn ^f   Smale, Mark ^b   Watts, Corinne ^b  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Model; Perturbation; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEFORESTATION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MAMMAL; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PEST DAMAGE; WEED;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

BEILSCHMIEDIA TAWA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956206735     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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