The importance of secondary forest blocks for terrestrial mammals within an Acacia/secondary forest matrix in Sarawak, Malaysia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3108-3119

  McShea, William J ^a   Stewart, Chad ^a   Peterson, Liesl ^a   Erb, Peter ^a   Stuebing, Robert ^b   Giman, Belden ^c  

^a National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c Grand Perfect Sdn Bhd ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Acacia; Borneo; Camera trapping; Large mammal diversity; Pulp plantations

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INFRARED IMAGERY; MAMMAL; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

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

ACACIA; BRACHYURA; CERVUS UNICOLOR; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; HELARCTOS; HELARCTOS MALAYANUS; HYSTRIX BRACHYURUS; MACACA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MAMMALIA; RUCERVUS; SUIDAE; SUS BARBATUS; TRAGULUS; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 70350574818     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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