Forest Land-Use in Sabah, Malaysia: An Introduction to Danum Valley
Forest Land-Use in Sabah, Malaysia: An Introduction to Danum Valley
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马来西亚沙巴的林地利用:丹浓谷简介
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.1992.0025
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
A. G. Greer
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作者:
C. Marsh;A. G. Greer
The Malaysian state of Sabah occupies an area of 73 371 km $^{2}$ which is about 10% of the island of Borneo. About 60% of the land area is forested and 48% is gazetted as Permanent Forest Reserve or State or National Parks. The largest agent of forest disturbance is the timber industry, which plays a leading role in the state economy. A statutory body, the Sabah Foundation, holds a 100-year timber concession of 973 000 ha (9730 km $^{2}$ ) in the southeast of the state. Of this concession 9.7% has been reserved for conservation, including 43 800 ha (438 km $^{2}$ ) of uninhabited, mostly lowland forest in an area called Danum Valley. Since 1986, this has been the site of a field centre and a collaborative research programme devoted to comparative study of primary forest ecology and the impacts of selective logging. The paper includes a summary account of the ecology of the Danum Valley Conservation Area.