Habitat requirements of the endangered red-tailed phascogale, Phascogale calura

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 359-369

  Short, Jeff ^a,b   Hide, Andrew ^a   Stone, Megan ^a  

^a Wildlife Research and Management   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

connectivity; dasyurid; fire; fragmentation; Gastrolobium; salinity; tree hollows; wheatbelt

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARID REGION; CONNECTIVITY; DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MARSUPIAL; NESTING; PERSISTENCE; PREDATION RISK; RAPTOR; SALINITY; SEMIARID REGION; TRAPPING; TREEHOLE; WHEAT;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ALLOCASUARINA HUEGELIANA; CASUARINA; CASUARINA OBESA; CRITHMUM MARITIMUM; DASYURIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS LOXOPHLEBA; EUCALYPTUS WANDOO; GASTROLOBIUM; PHASCOGALE; PHASCOGALE CALURA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 80054122419     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10220     Document Type: Article

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