Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9446184 | Biological Conservation | 2005 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Because animal species may respond individualistically to gradients of climate, space, shelter and food availability, continuum theory (as developed for plant ecology) may be a useful complement to fragmentation theory to explain distribution patterns. To maintain lizard diversity in the study area, it will be important to maintain maximum habitat heterogeneity at the landscape and microhabitat scales. For species otherwise threatened by plantation development, large, fairly undisturbed areas of eucalypt forest will be particularly important.
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Authors
Joern Fischer, David B. Lindenmayer, Simon Barry, Emily Flowers,