Effects of Oil-Palm Plantations on Diversity of Tropical Anurans

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 615-624

  Faruk, Aisyah ^a,b   Belabut, Daicus ^c,d   Ahmad, Norhayati ^d   Knell, Robert J ^a   Garner, Trenton W J ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

reas protegidas; Agricultura; Agriculture; Asia; Indicadores; Indicators; Inventarios y monitoreo; Inventory and monitoring; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; HABITAT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANURA; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALAYSIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANURA; ARECACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MALAYSIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANURA; ELAEIS; FEJERVARYA LIMNOCHARIS; HYDROPHYLAX (FROG); MICROHYLA HEYMONSI;

EID: 84878295505     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12062     Document Type: Article

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