Where and how are roads endangering mammals in Southeast Asia's forests?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Lynam, Antony J ^g   Gaveau, David ^h   Yap, Wei Lim ⁱ   Lhota, Stanislav ^j   Goosem, Miriam ^a   Laurance, Susan ^a   Laurance, William F ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^c PANTHERA   (United States)

^d Rimba   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^h CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

ⁱ World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^j CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONVERSION; HUMAN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ANIMAL; FOREST; MAMMAL; MOTOR VEHICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORESTS; MAMMALS; MOTOR VEHICLES;

EID: 84919344168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115376     Document Type: Article

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