Resistance and resilience: Can the abrupt end of extreme drought reverse avifaunal collapse?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1321-1332

  Bennett, Joanne M ^a   Nimmo, Dale G ^b   Clarke, Rohan H ^a   Thomson, James R ^c   Cheers, Garry ^d   Horrocks, Gregory F B ^a   Hall, Mark ^b   Radford, James Q ^e   Bennett, Andrew F ^b   Mac Nally, Ralph ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d Bush Heritage Australia ^*  (Australia)

^e Bush Heritage Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big dry; Big wet; Climate change; Degradation; Land use change; Recovery; Species traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925351816     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12230     Document Type: Article

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