The value of countryside elements in the conservation of a threatened arboreal marsupial petaurus norfolcensis in agricultural landscapes of South-Eastern Australia-The disproportional value of scattered trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Crane, Mason J ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Cunningham, Ross B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; MARSUPIAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCIURIDAE; VEGETATION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MARSUPIALIA; TREES;

EID: 84928115337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107178     Document Type: Article

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