Revegetation and the significance of timelags in provision of habitat resources for birds

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783540691679, 2008, Pages 183-209

  Vesk, Peter A ^a   Nally, Ralph Mac ^b   Thomson, James R ^b   Horrocks, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEMS; REVEGETATION; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENTS; HABITAT SUITABILITY INDEX; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION; POPULATION BOTTLENECKS; RESOURCE PROVISIONS; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

EID: 85028853241     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69168-6_10     Document Type: Article

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