An empirical assessment and comparison of species-based and habitat-based surrogates: A case study of forest vertebrates and large old trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Barton, Philip S ^a   Lane, Peter W ^a   Westgate, Martin J ^a   McBurney, Lachlan ^a   Blair, David ^a   Gibbons, Philip ^a   Likens, Gene E ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURROGATE; TREE; VEGETATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MARSUPIALIA; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; VICTORIA;

EID: 84896098779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089807     Document Type: Article

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