Home Range Size and Micro-habitat Density Requirements of Egernia napoleonis: Implications for Restored Jarrah Forest of South Western Australia

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 740-746

  Christie, Kimberley ^a   Craig, Michael D ^a,b   Stokes, Vicki L ^c   Hobbs, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Alcoa of Australia Ltd ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Forest restoration; Reptile recolonization; Social tolerance

Indexed keywords

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; FOREST; LIZARD; MICROHABITAT; NICHE OVERLAP; RANGE SIZE; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EGERNIA; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE;

EID: 84869081750     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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