Rethinking the 'back to wilderness' concept for Sundaland's forests

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3149-3152

  Giam, Xingli ^a,b   Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben ^c,d   Aziz, Sheema Abdul ^e   Chong, Kwek Yan ^f   Miettinen, Jukka ^f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^e Rimba   (Malaysia)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land use change; Plantation; Reconciliation ecology; Selective logging; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (GEOPHYSICS); PARADIGM SHIFT; PLANTATION; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; PROTECTED AREA; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; WILDERNESS AREA;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 83555173306     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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