Riparian vegetation has disproportionate benefits for landscape-scale conservation of woodland birds in highly modified environments

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 514-523

  Bennett, Andrew F ^a   Nimmo, Dale G ^a   Radford, James Q ^a,b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural environments; Australia; Avifauna; Countryside; Farmland; Landscape; Streamside; Woodland birds; diversity; diversity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 84896395784     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12200     Document Type: Article

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