Traditional land use associated with swidden agriculture changes encounter rates of the top predator, the army ant, in southeast asian tropical rain forests

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3139-3151

  Matsumoto, T ^a   Itioka, T ^a   Yamane, Sk ^b   Momose, K ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aenictus; Army ant; Biodiversity; Borneo; Forest management; Slash and burn agriculture; Swidden agriculture; Top predator

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; ENCOUNTER RATE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE; LITTER; PREDATOR; RAINFOREST; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AENICTUS; ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 70350352918     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9632-4     Document Type: Article

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