Termite assemblages, forest disturbance and greenhouse gas fluxes in Sabah, East Malaysia

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1391, 1999, Pages 1791-1802

  Eggleton, P ^a   Homathevi, R ^a,b   Jones, D T ^a   MacDonald, J A ^c   Jeeva, D ^b   Bignell, D E ^b   Davies, R G ^a   Maryati, M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Tropica Biology/Conservation Unit   (Malaysia)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dipterocarp forest; Energy flows; Isoptera; Landscape gas fluxes

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC EMISSION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GAS; RAINFOREST; TERMITE;

DANUM VALLEY; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

ISOPTERA; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0033615984     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0521     Document Type: Article

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