Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia

Currently, oil palm is one of the world’s leading crops with rapidly increasing demand but it lead to conservation issues like tropical deforestation and biodiversity. As such values are likely to be one of the major conservation issues across the globe. Therefore, conservation efforts for these thr...

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Main Author:	Ibrahim, Nor Laili
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Mammals - Conservation - Peninsular Malaysia Oil palm - Peninsular Malaysia Biodiversity - Peninsular Malaysia
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31911/1/FH%202012%204R.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.319112015-01-28T05:20:15Z Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia 2012-04 Ibrahim, Nor Laili Currently, oil palm is one of the world’s leading crops with rapidly increasing demand but it lead to conservation issues like tropical deforestation and biodiversity. As such values are likely to be one of the major conservation issues across the globe. Therefore, conservation efforts for these threatened and endangered species, especially terrestrial mammal often suffer due to a lack of information on species requirements or their distribution. Nowadays, terrestrial mammals are not only confined to nature reserves and protected area, but also becoming widespread in other land uses as well as within oil palm landscape. managed to record a total of 18,052 individual animals from 40 species including seven most endangered species. Among them, the primate species was the most commonly registered mammals, with the Malayan Sun Bear being frequently present, thus showing significantly higher numbers in smallholdings than in plantation estates (p < 0.05) at standing age of oil palm more than 20 years. Oil palm management plays an important role in the influence of mammal diversity and abundance. It is noticed that the smallholdings were planted with different crops. As a result, this specific practice may have directly or indirectly improved the complexity of plant richness and habitat which benefited some mammal species. In conclusion, this study has been able to demonstrate that most of the oil palm areas can support some native mammals, if hunting and conflict in human-wildlife problem can be overcomes by plantation stakeholders. Apart from forest conservation, the studies have also recommended that the oil palm-dominated areas be managed more as an off-reserve strategy in order to protect the mammal diversity. Mammals - Conservation - Peninsular Malaysia Oil palm - Peninsular Malaysia Biodiversity - Peninsular Malaysia 2012-04 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31911/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31911/1/FH%202012%204R.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Mammals - Conservation - Peninsular Malaysia Oil palm - Peninsular Malaysia Biodiversity - Peninsular Malaysia Faculty of Forestry
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English
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spellingShingle	Mammals - Conservation - Peninsular Malaysia Oil palm - Peninsular Malaysia Biodiversity - Peninsular Malaysia Ibrahim, Nor Laili Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
description	Currently, oil palm is one of the world’s leading crops with rapidly increasing demand but it lead to conservation issues like tropical deforestation and biodiversity. As such values are likely to be one of the major conservation issues across the globe. Therefore, conservation efforts for these threatened and endangered species, especially terrestrial mammal often suffer due to a lack of information on species requirements or their distribution. Nowadays, terrestrial mammals are not only confined to nature reserves and protected area, but also becoming widespread in other land uses as well as within oil palm landscape. managed to record a total of 18,052 individual animals from 40 species including seven most endangered species. Among them, the primate species was the most commonly registered mammals, with the Malayan Sun Bear being frequently present, thus showing significantly higher numbers in smallholdings than in plantation estates (p < 0.05) at standing age of oil palm more than 20 years. Oil palm management plays an important role in the influence of mammal diversity and abundance. It is noticed that the smallholdings were planted with different crops. As a result, this specific practice may have directly or indirectly improved the complexity of plant richness and habitat which benefited some mammal species. In conclusion, this study has been able to demonstrate that most of the oil palm areas can support some native mammals, if hunting and conflict in human-wildlife problem can be overcomes by plantation stakeholders. Apart from forest conservation, the studies have also recommended that the oil palm-dominated areas be managed more as an off-reserve strategy in order to protect the mammal diversity.
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author	Ibrahim, Nor Laili
author_facet	Ibrahim, Nor Laili
author_sort	Ibrahim, Nor Laili
title	Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
title_short	Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
title_full	Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
title_fullStr	Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia
title_sort	mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in peninsular malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department	Faculty of Forestry
publishDate	2012
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31911/1/FH%202012%204R.pdf
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Mammal abundance and diversity in oil palm cultivations in Peninsular Malaysia

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