A case study on the effects of disturbance and conversion of tropical lowland rain forest on the non-volant small mammals in North Borneo: management implications

• Main Authors: Henry Bernard, Jon Fjeldså, Maryati Mohamed
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Mammalogical Society of Japan 2009
• Subjects: SD1-669.5 Forestry; SF1-1100 Animal culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29024/2/A%20case%20study%20on%20the%20effects%20of%20disturbance%20and%20conversion%20of%20tropical%20lowland%20rain%20forest%20on%20the%20non-volant%20small%20mammals%20in%20North%20Borneo_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29024/3/A%20case%20study%20on%20the%20effects%20of%20disturbance%20and%20conversion%20of%20tropical%20lowland%20rain%20forest%20on%20the%20non-volant%20small%20mammals%20in%20North%20Borneo%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29024/; https://bioone.org/journals/mammal-study/volume-34/issue-2/041.034.0204/A-Case-Study-on-the-Effects-of-Disturbance-and-Conversion/10.3106/041.034.0204.short; http://dx.doi.org/10.3106/041.034.0204
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

The conversion and loss of primary rainforest in Southeast Asia is presumed to affect many animal assemblages in terms of their diversity and species composition. We studied the responses of non-volant small mammals to forest loss and degradation caused by logging and the establishment of large-scal...