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The Effectiveness of Conservation Reserves: Land Tenure Impacts upon Biodiversity across Extensive Natural Landscapes in the Tropical Savannahs of the Northern Territory, Australia | |
John C.Z. Woinarski1  Jon Green1  Alaric Fisher1  Michelle Ensbey1  | |
[1] Department of Land Resource Management, PO Box 496, Palmerston, NT 0831, Australia; E-Mails: | |
关键词: Indigenous land management; national park; biodiversity; fire; pastoralism; tropical savannah; threatened species; | |
DOI : 10.3390/land2010020 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
This study examines whether there is a biodiversity benefit (“dividend”) associated with the existence and management of conservation reserves in the extensive and largely natural landscape of northern Australia. Species richness and abundance of vertebrate fauna and the intensity of a range of disturbance factors were compared across a set of 967 sampled quadrats, located either in pastoral lands, Indigenous lands or conservation reserves, with all sampled quadrats within a single vegetation type (open forests and savannah woodlands dominated by
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CC BY
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