The diversity and activity patterns of wild felids in a secondary forest in Peninsular Malaysia

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Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-41

  Azlan, J Mohd ^a   Sharma, Dionysius S K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^b WWF Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^c UNIMAS ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Catopuma; Disturbed forest; Malaysia; Neofelis; Oil palm estate; Panthera; Pardofelis; Prionailurus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FELID; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

CATOPUMA; CATOPUMA TEMMINCKII; ELAEIS; FELIDAE; FELIS SILVESTRIS; MAMMALIA; NEOFELIS; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PARDOFELIS; PARDOFELIS MARMORATA; PRIONAILURUS; PRIONAILURUS BENGALENSIS;

EID: 33644978965     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605306000147     Document Type: Article

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