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9 - Tropical montane cloud forests in Malaysia: current state of knowledge
- from Part II - Regional floristic and animal diversity
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- By S. Kumaran, WWF-Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, B. Perumal, Wetlands International, Malaysia, G. Davison, WWF-Malaysia, Malaysia, A. N. Ainuddin, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, M. S. Lee, WWF-Malaysia, Malaysia, L.A. Bruijnzeel, VU University, the Netherlands
- Edited by L. A. Bruijnzeel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, F. N. Scatena, University of Pennsylvania, L. S. Hamilton, Cornell University, New York
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- Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
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- 03 May 2011
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- 06 January 2011, pp 113-120
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Taking 1500 m elevation as the approximate lower limit of upper montane cloud forest occurrence in Malaysia, 0.72% of the total land area of the country may be considered to be potentially covered by tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF). Delineation of TMCF is not easy due to the interplay of climatic and topographic features (including the “mass-elevation” effect). Some studies have shown that the lifting condensation level (cloud base) occurs around 1200 m.a.s.l. in Peninsular Malaysia, at c. 1800–2000 m on large mountains like Mt. Kinabalu (Borneo), and as low as c. 700 m on small, outlying coastal mountains (e.g. Gunung Silam, Sabah). Published information on the biodiversity of TMCF in Malaysia is scattered. Important tree families in montane forests include Ericaceae, Myrtaceae, Coniferae, Fagaceae, and Lauraceae, which are often blanketed with epiphytes, ferns, bryophytes, and liverworts. About 3000–4000 vascular plant species are found in the montane forests of Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. There is a distinct montane community amongst most classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates, but the fauna of TCMF is mostly a small sub-set of the overall montane fauna. About 18 mammal species in Borneo and 10 in Peninsular Malaysia are strictly montane but none are truly restricted to cloud forests. Bird diversity is well studied but limited information is available on the number of species that are cloud forest specialists. Patchy records are available for butterflies, moths, mollusks, and herpetofauna. Studies on the capture of cloud water in Malaysian cloud forests are rare. […]
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- By Joëlle Adrien, M. Y. Agargun, Negar Ahmadi, Imran M. Ahmed, J. Todd Arnedt, Joseph Barbera, Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau, Marie E. Beitinger, Francesco Benedetti, Glenn Berall, Kirk J. Brower, Gregory M. Brown, Kumaraswamy Budur, Daniel P. Cardinali, Deirdre A. Conroy, Sara Dallaspezia, José Manuel de la Fuente, Paolo De Luca, Diana De Ronchi, Antonio Drago, Matthew R. Ebben, Irshaad Ebrahim, Pingfu Feng, Peter B. Fenwick, Lina Fine, Jonathan Adrian Ewing Fleming, Paul A. Fredrickson, Stephany Fulda, Lucile Garma, Roger Godbout, Reut Gruber, J. Allan Hobson, Andrea Iaboni, Anna Ivanenko, Mayumi Kimura, Milton Kramer, Christoph J. Lauer, Remy Luthringer, Luis Fernando Martínez, Sara Matteson-Rusby, Robert W. McCarley, Charles J. Meliska, Harvey Moldofsky, Charles M. Morin, Sricharan Moturi, Marie-Christine Ouellet, James F. Pagel, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Barbara L. Parry, Timo Partonen, Wilfred R. Pigeon, Thomas Pollmächer, Nathalie Pross, Elliott Richelson, Naomi L. Rogers, Stefan Rupprecht-Mrozek, Philip Saleh, Andreas Schuld, Alessandro Serretti, Colin M. Shapiro, Christopher Michael Sinton, Marcel G. Smits, D. Warren Spence, Jürgen Staedt, Corinne Staner, Luc Staner, Axel Steiger, Deborah Suchecki, Michael J. Thorpy, Inna Voloh, Bradley G. Whitwell, Robert A. Zucker
- Edited by S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Milton Kramer, University of Illinois, Chicago
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- Sleep and Mental Illness
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- 05 July 2011
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- 01 April 2010, pp ix-xiii
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- By Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ragnar Asplund, Michel Billiard, Theresa M. Buckley, Rohit Budhiraja, Robert N. Butler, Daniel J. Buysse, Scott S. Campbell, Daniel P. Cardinali, Julie Carrier, Cynthia L. Comella, Jana R. Cooke, Pietro Cortelli, Agnès Demazieres, Glenna A. Dowling, Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Philip R. Gehrman, Nalaka Sudheera Gooneratne, David S. Hallegua, Patrick J. Hanly, David G. Harper, Orla P. Hornung, Magdolna Hornyak, Michal Karasek, Milton Kramer, Andrew D. Krystal, Malcolm H. Lader, Rachel Leproult, Kenneth L. Lichstein, Andrea H.S. Loewen, Rémy Luthringer, Laurin J. Mack, Evelyn Mai, Atul Malhotra, Jennifer L. Martin, Judy Mastick, Monique A.J. Mets, Andrew A. Monjan, Timothy H. Monk, Daniel Monti, Jaime M. Monti, Patricia J. Murphy, C. Ineke Neutel, Eric A. Nofzinger, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Scott B. Patton, Donald B. Penzien, Max H. Pittler, Giora Pillar, Marc J. Poulin, Louis J. Ptácek, Stuart F. Quan, Jeanetta C. Rains, Megan E. Ruiter, Bruce D. Rybarczyk, Colin M. Shapiro, Vijay Kumar Sharma, D. Warren Spence, Kai Spiegelhalder, Luc Staner, Stephanie A. Studenski, Nikola N. Trajanovic, Eve Van Cauter, Gregory S. Vander Wal, Joris C. Verster, Aleksandar Videnovic, Matthew P. Walker, Daniel J. Wallace, David K. Welsh, David P. White, Barbara Wider, Theresa B. Young, Stefano Zanigni
- Edited by S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Jaime M. Monti, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, Andrew A. Monjan, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Principles and Practice of Geriatric Sleep Medicine
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- 04 August 2010
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- 26 November 2009, pp ix-xii
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