- Abstract:
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Tropical forests have existed for up to one hundred million years, and today provide many ecosystem services vital for human well-being. They also harbour great biodiversity, which, in addition to its intrinsic value, plays a key role in the functioning of these ecosystems. Despite their local to global significance, there are still many knowledge gaps concerning the dynamic processes that govern the functioning of tropical forests. Rapid rates of deforestation and landscape conversion,...
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- Role:
- Supervisor
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Research group:
- Oxford Long-term Ecology Lab & Oxford Biodiversity Institute
- Oxford college:
- Green Templeton College
- Department:
- Social Sciences Division - Environment,Centre for the
- Funding agency for:
- Lydia Eve Spencer/L. E. S. C. Cole
- Publication date:
- 2013
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
- URN:
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- Local pid:
- ora:7170
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- Copyright holder:
- Lydia Cole
- Copyright date:
- 2012
Thesis
Disturbance, recovery and resilience in tropical forests: a focus on the coastal peat swamp forests of Malaysian Borneo
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+ Prof. Kathy J. Willis
+ Shonil A. Bhagwat
+ Lydia Eve Spencer/L. E. S. C. Cole
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+ Natural Environment Research Council
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