Effects of karst forest degradation on pulmonate and prosobranch land snail communities in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 949-954

  Schilthuizen, Menno ^a   Liew, Thor Seng ^a   Elahan, Berjaya Bin ^b   Lackman Ancrenaz, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^b Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Endemism; Limestone; Mollusca; Quarrying; Southeast Asia; Terrestrial Gastropoda

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; KARST; LAND DEGRADATION; SNAIL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PROSOBRANCHIA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 20044385471     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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