Plant functional types and traits as biodiversity indicators for tropical forests: Two biogeographically separated case studies including birds, mammals and termites

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1909-1930

  Gillison, Andrew N ^a   Bignell, David E ^b,s   Brewer, Kenneth R W ^c   Fernandes, Erick C M ^d   Jones, David T ^e   Sheil, Douglas ^f,t,u   May, Peter H ^g   Watt, Allan D ^h   Constantino, Reginaldo ⁱ   Couto, Eduardo G ^j   Hairiah, Kurniatun ^k   Jepson, Paul ^l   Kartono, Agus P ^m   Maryanto, Ibnu ⁿ   Neto, Germano G ^j   van Noordwijk, Meine ^o   Silveira, Elton A ^p   Susilo, Francis Xavier ^q   Vosti, Stephen A ^r   Nunes, Paulo C ^v  

^a Center for Biodiversity Management   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^j FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^k BRAWIJAYA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

ⁿ INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^o WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^p Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente do Estado de Mato Grosso   (Brazil)

^q UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG   (Indonesia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^t Bwindi Impenetrable National Park   (Uganda)

^u CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^v ADERJUR   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Fauna; Habitat characterization; Plant functional types; Rapid biodiversity assessment; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MAMMAL; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PALEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TERMITE; TRANSECT; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MATO GROSSO; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; MAMMALIA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84881023412     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0517-1     Document Type: Article

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