Burning and logging differentially affect endemic vs. widely distributed butterfly species in Borneo

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 409-416

  Cleary, Daniel F R ^a,c   Mooers, Arne Ø ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundance; Disturbance; El Ni o; Endemism; Extirpation; Fire

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BURNING; BUTTERFLY; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; DISTURBANCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33745747929     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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