The bird fauna of Melbourne: Changes over a century of urban growth and climate change, using a benchmark from Keartland (1900)

Victorian Naturalist

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 210-231

  Loyn, Richard H ^a   Menkhorst, Peter W ^a  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Colonisation; Declining birds; Historical change; Urban birds

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955236136     PISSN: 00425184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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