Integrating life history traits and forest structure to evaluate the vulnerability of rainforest birds along gradients of deforestation and fragmentation in eastern Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 188, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-99

  Pavlacky, David C ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a   Goldizen, Anne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Deforestation; Gondwana rainforests of Australia; Landscape ecology; Multi species conservation; Rainforest fragmentation

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GONDWANA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PATCH SIZE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MENURA ALBERTI; PTILORIS PARADISEUS;

EID: 84937963740     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.10.020     Document Type: Article

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