Comparison of understorey bird species in relation to edge-interior gradient in an isolated tropical rainforest of Malaysia

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 375-392

  Zakaria, Mohamed ^a   Rajpar, Muhammad Nawaz ^a   Moradi, Hossein Varasteh ^a   Rosli, Zamri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CROP SCIENCE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Diversity indices; Edge forest; Interior forest; Isolated forest; Understorey birds

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; ISOLATION EFFECT; LEAF LITTER; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

AVES;

EID: 84895551310     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-013-9482-9     Document Type: Article

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