Conservation importance of limestone karst outcrops for Palaeotropical bats in a fragmented landscape

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2089-2096

  Struebig, Matthew J ^a   Kingston, Tigga ^b   Zubaid, Akbar ^c   Le Comber, Steven C ^a   Mohd Adnan, Adura ^c   Turner, Anthony ^a   Kelly, Joanne ^a   Bozek, Monika ^d   Rossiter, Stephen J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cave; Chiroptera; Distance decay; Forest fragmentation; Gradient; Malaysia; Mining; Spatial subsidy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; KARST; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LIMESTONE; MINING; OUTCROP; ROOSTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 68349155852     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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