Do insectivorous bird communities decline on land-bridge forest islands in Peninsular Malaysia?

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Yong, Ding Li ^a   Qie, Lan ^a,b   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Koh, Lian Pin ^c   Peh, Kelvin S H ^d   Lee, Tien Ming ^e,f   Lim, Haw Chuan ^g   Lim, Susan L H ^h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

area effect; feeding guild; foraging ecology; forest cover; insectivorous birds; land bridge islands; Malaysia; sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; FOREST COVER; GUILD STRUCTURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECTIVORE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

KENYIR LAKE; MALAYSIA; TERENGGANU; WEST MALAYSIA;

AVES;

EID: 79251605496     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467410000520     Document Type: Article

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