Mitigating the impact of oil-palm monoculture on freshwater fishes in Southeast Asia

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1357-1367

  Giam, Xingli ^a,b,g   Hadiaty, Renny K ^c   Tan, Heok Hui ^b   Parenti, Lynne R ^d   Wowor, Daisy ^c   Sauri, Sopian ^c   Chong, Kwek Yan ^e   Yeo, Darren C J ^e   Wilcove, David S ^a,f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense   (Indonesia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Buffers; Fishes; Functional diversity; Land sharing; Riparian reserves; Stream; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FISH; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LEAF LITTER; MONOCOTYLEDON; MONOCULTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

CENTRAL KALIMANTAN; INDONESIA;

ELAEIS; PISCES;

FRESH WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARECACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; INDONESIA; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; INDONESIA;

EID: 84941878452     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12483     Document Type: Article

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