A Demi-Decade of Mammal Research: A Rapid Assessment within the Heart of Borneo in Sabah.

IF 1.1 Q3 BIOLOGY

Tropical life sciences research Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.21315/tlsr2023.34.1.14

Mohd Aminur Faiz Suis, Jabanus Miun, Lawrence Tingkoi, Alexander Yuk Loong Hastie, Arthur Chung Yaw Chyang, Reuben Nilus

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Sabah contributes 4.2 million hectares to the total Heart of Borneo (HoB) areas. Some of the forest reserves in the HoB are newly gazetted as Totally Protected Forest. Hence, their mammal diversity has to be comprehensively documented. This study aims to record the presence of terrestrial mammal species, and assess the prevalence of poaching in selected forest reserves within the Sabah HoB area. A total of 15 forest reserves were surveyed within a 5-year timeframe which recorded 60 terrestrial mammal species, including 21 Bornean endemics. The variation in total enumerated mammal species in the study sites may be derived from unequal sampling efforts, geographical factors and anthropogenic influences. The intensity of poaching within the study sites is high. Though this study is a rapid assessment, it created baseline information for mammal diversity in some of the least studied forest reserves in Sabah, important for conservation of its terrestrial mammals.

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哺乳动物研究的半十年:在沙巴州婆罗洲中心的快速评估。

沙巴占婆罗洲中心地区总面积420万公顷。香港的部分森林保护区最近在宪报刊登为完全受保护的森林。因此，它们的哺乳动物多样性必须被全面记录下来。本研究旨在记录陆地哺乳动物物种的存在，并评估在Sabah HoB地区选定的森林保护区偷猎的普遍程度。在5年的时间框架内，共调查了15个森林保护区，记录了60种陆生哺乳动物，其中包括21种婆罗洲特有动物。各研究点所列哺乳动物物种总数的差异可能与采样不均等、地理因素和人为影响有关。研究地点内的偷猎强度很高。虽然这项研究是一项快速评估，但它为沙巴一些研究最少的森林保护区的哺乳动物多样性创造了基线信息，这对保护其陆地哺乳动物很重要。

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Tropical life sciences research BIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Tropical Life Sciences Research (TLSR) formerly known as Journal of Bioscience seeks to publish relevant ideas and knowledge addressing vital life sciences issues in the tropical region. The Journal’s scope is interdisciplinary in nature and covers any aspects related to issues on life sciences especially from the field of biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology and animal, plant, environmental, biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences. TLSR practices double blind peer review system to ensure and maintain the good quality of articles published in this journal. Two issues are published annually in printed and electronic form. TLSR also accepts review articles, experimental papers and short communications. The Chief Editor would like to invite researchers to use this journal as a mean to rapidly promote their research findings.