250 Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities
Acknowledgements
Several current and former AWC staff have contributed to the development of
AWC’s monitoring framework including David Roshier, Michael Smith, James
Smith, Sarah Legge, Matt Hayward and Manda Page. We thank James Brazill-Boast,
David Lindenmayer and Darren Southwell for their review of the manuscript.
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