Specific nest box designs can improve habitat restoration for cavity-dependent arboreal mammals

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 482-490

  Goldingay, Ross L ^a   Rueegger, Niels N ^a   Grimson, Matthew J ^a   Taylor, Brendan D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brushtail possum; Common myna; Honeybees; Nest boxes; Squirrel glider; Sugar glider

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARBOREAL SPECIES; BIRD; HABITAT RESTORATION; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAMMAL; NEST BOX; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS; APIS MELLIFERA; AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PETAURUS BREVICEPS; PETAURUS NORFOLCENSIS; PHALANGERIDAE;

EID: 84937072941     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12208     Document Type: Article

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