Home range size and use by the long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta) following fire

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-216

  MacGregor, Christopher I ^a   Wood, Jeff T ^a   Dexter, Nick ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Booderee National Park   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecology; habitat modification; habitat preference; Peramelidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873816034     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM12032     Document Type: Article

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