Environmental change and rain forests on the Sunda shelf of Southeast Asia: Drought, fire and the biological cooling of biodiversity hotspots

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1159-1177

  Taylor, D ^a   Saksena, P ^a   Sanderson, P G ^a   Kucera, K ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecological stability; Fire; Rain forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST FIRE; HOT SPOT; QUATERNARY; RAINFOREST;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0032848684     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008952428475     Document Type: Article

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