Movement patterns of an arboreal marsupial at the edge of its range: A case study of the koala

Movement Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Davies, Nicole ^a   Gramotnev, Galina ^a   Seabrook, Leonie ^a   Bradley, Adrian ^a   Baxter, Greg ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan ^a   Lunney, Daniel ^b,c   McAlpine, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Home range; Koala; Resource selection; Semi arid; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924194538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-1-8     Document Type: Article

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