Artificial nest and seed predation experiments in tropical lowland rainforest remnants of Singapore

Biological Conservation

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 97-104

  Wong, Timothy C M ^a   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Turner, I M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Negative edge effects; Nest predation; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NEST PREDATION; PLANT REGENERATION; RAINFOREST; SEED PREDATION;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0032128310     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00145-6     Document Type: Article

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