Bird assemblages in Tasmanian clearcuts are influenced by the age of eucalypt regeneration but not by distance from mature forest

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-147

  Hingston, Andrew B ^a,b   Jordan, Gregory J ^a   Wardlaw, Tim J ^b   Baker, Susan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Forest influence; Retention forestry; Succession; Sustainable forestry; Variable retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915802662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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