The influence of agricultural system, stand structural complexity and landscape context on foraging birds in oil palm landscapes

Ibis

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-312

  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

Foraging guilds; Logging; Peat swamp forest; Plantation estates; Smallholdings

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BIRD; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EPIPHYTE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUILD; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONOCOTYLEDON; NATIVE SPECIES; OIL PRODUCTION; ORNITHOLOGY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRUNING; REVEGETATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SMALLHOLDER; STAND STRUCTURE; SWAMP; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84875363281     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12025     Document Type: Article

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