Deforestation and avian extinction on tropical landbridge islands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1290-1298

  Sodhi, Navjot S ^a,b   Wilcove, David S ^c   Lee, Tien Ming ^d,e   Sekercioglu, Cagan H ^f   Subaraj, R ^a   Bernard, Henry ^g   Yong, Ding Li ^a   Lim, Susan L H ^h   Prawiradilaga, Dewi M ⁱ   Brook, Barry W ^j  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

ⁱ INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity crisis; Extirpations; Forest protection; Indonesia; Malaysia; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEFORESTATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND BRIDGE; LAND USE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; INDONESIA; MALAYSIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AVES;

EID: 77957141458     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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