Conservation of the Patchily Distributed and Declining Purple-Crowned Fairy-Wren (Malurus coronatus coronatus) across a Vast Landscape: The Need for a Collaborative Landscape-Scale Approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Skroblin, Anja ^a,b   Legge, Sarah ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CATCHMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; MALURUS CORONATUS CORONATUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PURPLE CROWNED FAIRY WREN; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; VEGETATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SONGBIRDS; TREES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MALURUS CORONATUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84878457564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064942     Document Type: Article

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