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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sundaland"”.
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MECHANISMS AND IMPACTS OF LAND-USE CHANGE ON FRESHWATER FISHES IN SUNDALAND
Freshwater fishes of Sundaland face threats from deforestation, yet the associated impacts and mechanisms remain inadequately understood. In this context, I sought to address the following: 1) Which are the priority regions for freshwater fish conservation in Sundaland?; 2) What are the impacts of …
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INVESTIGATION INTO THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMBINED IMPACTS OF WILDLIFE TRADE AND HABITAT LOSS ON BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS INTHE TROPICS
… and avian products. The next two chapters focus Sundaland, a global biodiversity hotspot in South East Asia. Firstly, I combine remote sensing, ecological, and socio-economic data to quantify the combined impacts of wildlife trade and habitat loss on 308 species of forest dependent birds in the …
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Evolutionary dynamics of bird populations in Southeast Asia
… unsuitable habitats between western and eastern Sundaland during the LGM coincided with deeper inter-population genetic divergences. The distinctiveness of the northeastern Borneo populations of some species may be underlain by a combination of factors that included riverine barriers, LGM …
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A 3D Analysis of the Indo-Australian Slab Subducting Beneath Sumatra
… Eurasian plate along the western margin of Sundaland. This area of the Indo-Australian plate subducting at the Sunda Trench is part of the Wharton Basin, which preserves an fossil seafloor spreading ridge offset by north-south trending fracture zones. Currently, the subducted plate geometry …
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Crustal structure and tectonics of Borneo and Sulawesi: results from receiver function analysis and virtual deep seismic sounding
… in the world and lies on the eastern margin of Sundaland, the continental core of Southeast Asia, but its intraplate setting means that it has no active volcanoes and little in the way of seismicity. By contrast, the adjacent island of Sulawesi features active subduction and a network of …