Conservation and grazing in Australia’s north-east: the bridled nailtail wallaby

Pastoralism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kearney, Fiachra ^a   McAllister, Ryan RJ ^b   MacLeod, Neil D ^b  

^a Bridled Nailtail Wallaby Trust   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brigalow; Cattle; Institutional fit; Scale mismatch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975257912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-2-20     Document Type: Article

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