Countryside vegetation provides supplementary habitat at the landscape scale for woodland birds in farm mosaics

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2225-2242

  Haslem, Angie ^a,b   Bennett, Andrew F ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Agro ecosystems; Australia; Countryside biogeography; Landscape structure; Matrix habitats

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FARM SIZE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PERSISTENCE; PLANTATION; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 79960995067     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0084-2     Document Type: Article

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