Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6947, 2003, Pages 420-423

  Brook, Barry W ^a,b   Sodhl, Navjot S ^c   Ng, Peter K L ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER;

FRESHWATER;

DEFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; HUMID TROPICS; MASS EXTINCTION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SINGAPORE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; FRESH WATER; PLANTS;

SINGAPORE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHASMATODEA; REPTILIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0043267996     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01795     Document Type: Article

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