Post-fire succession affects abundance and survival but not detectability in a knob-tailed gecko

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-147

  Smith, Annabel L ^a   Bull, C Michael ^b   Driscoll, Don A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal demography; Fire regime; Mark recapture; Reproduction; Reptile; Robust design

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMALIA; GEKKONIDAE; NEPHRURUS; REPTILIA;

EID: 84856218852     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.023     Document Type: Article

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