Do miners (Manorina spp.) affect bird assemblages in continuous savanna woodlands in north-eastern Australia?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 779-788

  Kutt, A S ^a   Vanderduys, E P ^a   Perry, J J ^a   Perkins, G C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Assemblage; Australia; Conservation; Keystone; Noisy miner Manorina melanocephala; Yellow throated miner Manorina flavigula

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DATA PROCESSING; KEYSTONE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; SAVANNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MANORINA; MANORINA FLAVIGULA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84867917462     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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