Impacts of El Niño related drought and forest fires on sun bear fruit resources in lowland dipterocarp forest of East Borneo

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1823-1838

  Fredriksson, G M ^a   Danielsen, L S ^b   Swenson, J E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Drought; ENSO; Figs; Fires; Helarctos malayanus; Kalimantan; Species diversity; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DROUGHT; EDGE EFFECT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; FRUIT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

HELARCTOS MALAYANUS;

EID: 34249694794     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9075-0     Document Type: Article

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