Effects of monoculture and polyculture practices in oil palm smallholdings on tropical farmland birds

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 336-346

  Azhar, Badrul ^a   Puan, Chong Leong ^a   Zakaria, Mohamed ^a   Hassan, Nuraishah ^a   Arif, Mohd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Department of Forest Management Faculty of Forestry Universiti Putra Malaysia ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity; Bird species richness; Conservation; Feeding guild; Oil palm

Indexed keywords

AVES; ELAEIS;

EID: 84903984930     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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