Biodiversity Conservation in Australian Tropical Rangelands

Wild Rangelands: Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 189-234

  Garnett, Stephen T ^a   Woinarski, John C Z ^a,b   Crowley, Gabriel M ^c   Kutt, Alex S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Natural Resources Environment ^*  (Australia)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian continent and three biogeographic realms; Australian tropical rangelands and biodiversity conservation; Australian wildlife in tropical savannas; Biodiversity conservation and regional prehistory; Demographic trends and proximal threat management; Ecological impact of feral pigs; Northern Australia's pastoral intensification and environmental damage; Plant phenology and rainfall patterning; Temperate southern and eastern Australia; Weeds and structural vegetation change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949008713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317091.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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