BIO-4601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Clearcutting, Intact Forest Landscape
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Big challenges for small apes: prospects for gibbon conservation in an asian tiger. Malaysia upper middle income, aspiring to be high income agriculture) main economic sectors services, manufacturing, agriculture, mining (lots of palm oil. Conservation focus on megafauna (umbrella/flagship species) by government. 20 species listed by the iucn as endangered or critically endangered aesthetically integral to forests evolutionary distinct, unusual social and locomotor adaptations culturally important (folktales) ecologically irreplaceable seed dispersers. Strictly arboreal, preference for ripe fruit, territorial, slow reproduction. Massive and long-lasting fire in 1997, due to el nino southern oscillation event. Immediate impacts disappeared from most burned areas, lower habitat range size and quality near burned areas, resulting in infant and juvenile mortality (lead to demographic sinks) Long term response landsat imaging, home range mapping, annual census and mapping. Trees had regrown by 2012, although species composition was changed, standing carbon stock expected to return to normal this year.
