An Empirical Assessment of the Focal Species Hypothesis

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1594-1603

  Lindenmayer, D B ^a   Lane, P W ^a   Westgate, M J ^a   Crane, M ^a   Michael, D ^a   Okada, S ^a   Barton, P S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti surrogates; Biodiversity surrogates; Conservation practice; Threatened woodland birds

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERPINNING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTS; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84912567575     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12330     Document Type: Article

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