The conservation value of oil palm plantation estates, smallholdings and logged peat swamp forest for birds

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2306-2315

  Azhar, Badrul ^a,b   Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Wood, Jeff ^a   Fischer, Joern ^c   Manning, Adrian ^a   McElhinny, Chris ^a   Zakaria, Mohamed ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird assemblages; Management regime; Oil palm; Species richness; Stand age; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT REGIME; OIL PALM; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND AGE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PEAT; VEGETABLE OILS; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MONOCOTYLEDON; PEAT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP;

AGE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PEAT; PLANTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VEGETABLE OIL; WETLANDS;

AFRICA; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AVES; ELAEIS;

EID: 80055009645     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.08.026     Document Type: Article

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