Robustness of habitat-based surrogates of animal diversity: A multitaxa comparison over time

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1434-1443

  Barton, Philip S ^a   Westgate, Martin J ^a   Lane, Peter W ^a   Macgregor, Christopher ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Conservation; Indicator; Landscape; Mammals; Management; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84925343035     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12290     Document Type: Article

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