Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo

Herpetological explorations and collections from Borneo, including the East Malaysian States of Sarawak and Sabah, as well as the Indonesian Province of Kalimantan, are described. Borneo was far off the commercial trade route of Europe, and consequently, biological explorations of this large t...

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Main Author: Das, I.
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Language:English
Published: The Research Institute 2003
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description Herpetological explorations and collections from Borneo, including the East Malaysian States of Sarawak and Sabah, as well as the Indonesian Province of Kalimantan, are described. Borneo was far off the commercial trade route of Europe, and consequently, biological explorations of this large tropical island were to commence much later than in other adjacent regions, such as Java and Sumatra. Some of the earliest collectors include James MOTLEY, Alfred Rüssel WALLACE, Odoardo BECCARI and William Temple
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spelling unimas-118782016-05-05T03:42:58Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11878/ Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo Das, I. GE Environmental Sciences QL Zoology Herpetological explorations and collections from Borneo, including the East Malaysian States of Sarawak and Sabah, as well as the Indonesian Province of Kalimantan, are described. Borneo was far off the commercial trade route of Europe, and consequently, biological explorations of this large tropical island were to commence much later than in other adjacent regions, such as Java and Sumatra. Some of the earliest collectors include James MOTLEY, Alfred Rüssel WALLACE, Odoardo BECCARI and William Temple The Research Institute 2003 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11878/1/Collecting%20in%20the%20land%20%28abstract%29.PDF Das, I. (2003) Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 52. pp. 231-243. ISSN 0006-7172 http://alt.zfmk.de/BZB/B52_H3_4/B52H34S4.PDF
spellingShingle GE Environmental Sciences
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Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title_full Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title_fullStr Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title_full_unstemmed Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title_short Collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of Borneo
title_sort collecting in the “land below the wind”, herpetological explorations of borneo
topic GE Environmental Sciences
QL Zoology
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