Do riparian reserves support dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem services in oil palm-dominated tropical landscapes?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1049-1060

  Gray, Claudia L ^a   Slade, Eleanor M ^a,b   Mann, Darren J ^a   Lewis, Owen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Borneo; Conservation; Insect diversity; Rainforest; Riparian buffer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897933148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1003     Document Type: Article

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