The influence of habitat structure on bird species composition in lowland Malaysian rain forests

Tropical Life Sciences Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Mansor, Mohammad Saiful ^a   Sah, Shahrul Anuar Mohd ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Feeding guilds; Forest edge; Insectivorous birds; Limestone habitat; Malaysia; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST EDGE; FRUGIVORY; GUILD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INSECTIVORE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

MALAYSIA; PERAK; WEST MALAYSIA;

AVES; MOTACILLIDAE; NECTARINIIDAE; PYCNONOTIDAE; TIMALIIDAE;

EID: 84861753472     PISSN: 19853718     EISSN: 21804249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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