Search Results - "Khen Chey, Vun"
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Tropical forest fragments contribute to species richness in adjacent oil palm plantations
Published in Biological conservation (01-01-2014)“…•Ant species richness in oil palm is increased with increasing richness in adjacent forest.•This is due to spillover of species from forest to oil palm.•Ant…”
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Impacts of intensive logging on the trophic organisation of ant communities in a biodiversity hotspot
Published in PloS one (10-04-2013)“…Trophic organisation defines the flow of energy through ecosystems and is a key component of community structure. Widespread and intensifying anthropogenic…”
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Beta-diversity of geometrid moths from northern Borneo: effects of habitat, time and space
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-03-2007)“…1. Spatial patterns of beta-diversity, an important property of species communities, are less well-studied than those of local species richness, particularly…”
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Biodiversity of leaf-litter ants in fragmented tropical rainforests of Borneo: the value of publically and privately managed forest fragments
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-11-2014)“…In view of the rapid rate of expansion of agriculture in tropical regions, attention has focused on the potential for privately-managed rainforest patches…”
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Soup to Tree: The Phylogeny of Beetles Inferred by Mitochondrial Metagenomics of a Bornean Rainforest Sample
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-09-2015)“…In spite of the growth of molecular ecology, systematics and next-generation sequencing, the discovery and analysis of diversity is not currently integrated…”
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The impacts of habitat disturbance on adult and larval dragonflies (Odonata) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Published in Freshwater biology (01-03-2017)“…Summary Dragonfly assemblages (Odonata: comprising damselflies, Zygoptera; and dragonflies, Anisoptera) in Southeast Asian rainforests are extremely diverse…”
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Elevation increases in moth assemblages over 42 years on a tropical mountain
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-02-2009)“…Physiological research suggests that tropical insects are particularly sensitive to temperature, but information on their responses to climate change has been…”
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Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (27-11-2011)“…The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa…”
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Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest
Published in Nature communications (13-04-2015)“…Invertebrates are dominant species in primary tropical rainforests, where their abundance and diversity contributes to the functioning and resilience of these…”
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Impacts of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity in a tropical forest butterfly on Borneo
Published in Journal of tropical ecology (01-11-2007)“…Many areas of rain forest now exist as habitat fragments, and understanding the impacts of fragmentation is important for determining the viability of…”
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Explaining the elevational diversity pattern of geometrid moths from Borneo: a test of five hypotheses
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-08-2008)“…The aim of this study was to document quantitatively a hump-shaped elevational distribution of diversity for the geometrid moths of northern Borneo…”
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Selective-logging and oil palm: multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade-offs for conservation planning
Published in Ecological applications (01-12-2014)“…Strong global demand for tropical timber and agricultural products has driven large-scale logging and subsequent conversion of tropical forests. Given that the…”
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Ecological impacts of tropical forest fragmentation: how consistent are patterns in species richness and nestedness?
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (27-11-2011)“…Large areas of tropical forest now exist as remnants scattered across agricultural landscapes, and so understanding the impacts of forest fragmentation is…”
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Asymmetric boundary shifts of tropical montane Lepidoptera over four decades of climate warming
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-01-2011)“…Aim: To estimate whether species have shifted at equal rates at their leading edges (cool boundaries) and trailing edges (warm boundaries) in response to…”
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The conservation value of South East Asia's highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (27-11-2011)“…South East Asia is widely regarded as a centre of threatened biodiversity owing to extensive logging and forest conversion to agriculture. In particular,…”
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Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-04-2009)“…A major focus of geographical ecology and macroecology is to understand the causes of spatially structured ecological patterns. However, achieving this…”
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Distance-driven species turnover in Bornean rainforests: homogeneity and heterogeneity in primary and post-logging forests
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-06-2013)“…Selective logging is practiced extensively within tropical rainforests of south-east Asia, and its impact on local biodiversity is well documented. Little is…”
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Assessment of higher insect taxa as bioindicators for different logging‐disturbance regimes in lowland tropical rain forest in Sabah, Malaysia
Published in Ecological research (01-07-2007)“…One of the serious environmental problems since the 1980s has been the conflict between the high rate of deforestation and maintenance of healthy ecosystem…”
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The Response of Some Rain Forest Insect Groups to Logging and Conversion to Plantation
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (30-03-1992)“…Data and analyses from pilot studies in the Danum area of Sabah, East Malaysia, and elsewhere in the Indo-Australian tropics are used to measure the effects of…”
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Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate
Published in Nature (London) (25-07-2024)“…Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems 1…”
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