Wallaby extinctions at the macropodid frontier: The changing status of the northern pademelon Thylogale browni (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-183

  Heinsohn, T E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethnozoology; Extinctions; New Ireland Province; Pacific War impact; Thylogale browni; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976247471     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: 18367402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/am05175     Document Type: Article

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