Rehabilitation of Logged Rain Forests: Avifaunal Composition, Habitat Structure, and Implications for Biodiversity-Friendly REDD+

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 504-511

  Ansell, Felicity A ^a   Edwards, David P ^a,b   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian biodiversity crisis; Birds; Clean development mechanism; Habitat restoration; Kyoto protocol; REDD+; Silviculture

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CARBON CYCLE; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEFORESTATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT RESTORATION; RAINFOREST; RED LIST; SHRUB; SILVICULTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VINE;

BORNEO;

AVES;

EID: 79960109803     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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