Movement trajectories and habitat partitioning of small mammals in logged and unlogged rain forests on Borneo

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1212-1223

  Wells, Konstans ^a   Pfeiffer, Martin ^a   Lakim, Maklarin B ^b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Sabah Parks ^*  (Malaysia)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Community structure; Forest degradation; Small mammal stratification; Vertical habitat segregation

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BODY SIZE; FOREST FLOOR; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MICROHABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SMALL MAMMAL; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BORNEO; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCANDENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT; MURIDAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; SCIURIDAE; TREES; TUPAIIDAE;

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

ANIMALIA; LEOPOLDAMYS SABANUS; MAMMALIA; MAXOMYS RAJAH; MURIDAE; SCANDENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TUPAIA LONGIPES; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 33746812557     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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