Shifts from native to invasive small mammals across gradients from tropical forest to urban habitat in Borneo

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2289-2303

  Wells, Konstans ^a,b   Lakim, Maklarin B ^c   O'Hara, Robert B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Sabah Parks ^*  (Malaysia)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic landscape; Co occurrence; Occupancy model; Polynomial regression; Species invasion; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMENSAL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SYMPATRY; TROPICAL FOREST; URBANIZATION;

BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; KOTA KINABALU; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCANDENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SUNCUS MURINUS; SUNDAMYS; SUNDAMYS MUELLERI; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 84903889653     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0723-5     Document Type: Article

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