Clouded leopards, the secretive top-carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: Their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia

BMC Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wilting, Andreas ^a   Fischer, Frauke ^a   Bakar, Soffian Abu ^b   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA;

ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALAYSIA; PANTHERA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; MALAYSIA; PANTHERA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EID: 33751230789     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-6-16     Document Type: Article

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