
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brooker, Lesley 
A1  - Brooker, Michael 
T1  - Local distribution, metapopulation viability and conservation of the Blue-breasted Fairy-wren in fragmented habitat in the Western Australian wheatbelt
JF  - Emu
JO  - EMU
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 103
IS  - 3
SP  - 185
EP  - 198
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MU02045 
N2  - The distribution of Blue-breasted Fairy-wrens, Malurus pulcherrimus, in 12 million hectares of the central wheatbelt of Western Australia was determined from &#39;presence/absence&#39; records obtained from a search of 273 10&#8242; blocks of latitude and longitude, supplemented with &#39;presence-only&#39; records from the Birds Australia Atlas II, the literature and unpublished records. A simple &#39;rule of thumb&#39; method is presented for ranking remnant neighbourhoods on their metapopulation potential, as a means of assessing future population persistence with respect to the size and isolation of vegetation remnants. The method is used to model the metapopulation structure of Blue-breasted Fairy-wrens and to map their relative likelihood of occurrence across the fragmented landscape of the central wheatbelt. The conservation implications are discussed. 
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