Effects of rain forest logging on species richness and assemblage composition of small mammals in Southeast Asia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1087-1099

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Sabah Parks ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Community structure; Forest structure; Logging impacts; Sabah; Small mammals; Spatial scale; Sunda region; Tupaia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARBOREAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; RARE SPECIES; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; SCANDENTIA; TUPAIA; TUPAIIDAE; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 34447530920     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01677.x     Document Type: Article

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