Changes in bird assemblages during succession following disturbance in secondary wet forests in south-eastern Australia

Emu

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-128

  Serong, Merrilyn ^a   Lill, Alan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HARVESTING; PASSERINE; SUCCESSION; TIMBER HARVESTING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

ACANTHIZA PUSILLA; AVES; CORMOBATES LEUCOPHAEUS; PACHYCEPHALA PECTORALIS; PARDALOTUS STRIATUS; RHIPIDURA;

EID: 84861519994     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU11057     Document Type: Article

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