Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates
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Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change : Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations. ed. / Teja Tscharntke; Christoph Leuschner; Edzo Veldkamp; Heiko Faust; Edi Guhardja; Arifuddin Bidin. Berlin: Springer, 2010. p. 15-71 (Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science)).
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T1 - Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia)
T2 - plants, arthropods and vertebrates
AU - Clough, Yann
AU - Abrahamczyk, Stefan
AU - Adams, Marc-Oliver
AU - Anshary, Alam
AU - Ariyanti, Nunik
AU - Betz, Lydia
AU - Buchori, Damayanti
AU - Cicuzza, Daniele
AU - Darras, Kevin
AU - Dwi Putra, Dadang
AU - Piala, Brigitte
AU - Gradstein, S. Robert
AU - Kessler, Michael
AU - Klein, Alexandra-Maria
AU - Pitopang, Ramadhanil
AU - Sahari, Bandung
AU - Scherber, Christoph
AU - Schulze, Christian H.
AU - Shahabuddin,
AU - Sporn, Simone
AU - Stenchly, Kathrin
AU - Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S.
AU - Wanger, Thomas Cherico
AU - Weist, Maria
AU - Wielgoss, Arno
AU - Tscharntke, Teja
N1 - International Symposium on Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change, 2008.10.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The need to capture primary production in order to sustain and improve economic livelihoods has lead to increasing conversion of natural habitat and intensification of agricultural practices in many parts of the world including most tropical regions. Understanding how these processes affect ecosystems and their functioning, in particular in the high-diversity ecosystems of the tropics, has become a key issue in ecological research. In this chapter, our focus is on the agriculture-forest landscapes of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, an island widely known for its endemic yet still poorly known flora and fauna. The rise of the region to one of the largest cacao producing areas in the world is at the core of recent land-use change and intensification processes. Covering plants (trees, rattan palms, herbs, bryophytes) and several invertebrate (ants, dung beetles, cacao insect herbivores, fruit-feeding butterflies, parasitic Hymenoptera, spiders) and vertebrate groups (amphibians, birds, murids, reptiles), we give an in-depth overview of the determinants of biodiversity in cacao landscapes, including both management and landscape-scale variables into our analyses. Results show that shaded agroforests host a rich community of species. By adopting a large-scale study design we showed that proximity of natural forest is a key predictor for species richness of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates alike. Endemics and forest specialists benefit most from indigenous shade tree cover and proximity to natural forest. Importantly, several functionally important groups such as insectivorous and seed-dispersing birds benefit from tall shade trees, shade tree diversity and proximity to forest edge, while parasitoid diversity is greatest close to natural forests. Available data on the effects of landuse change in cacao landscape of Central Sulawesi is increasing. Change in landscape configuration and management practices are being clearly reflected in the composition of species communities, with likely impacts on ecosystem services such as pest control and pollination. More knowledge is needed especially in terms of species interactions and ecosystem functioning, but also on how existing knowledge can contribute to effective conservation in human-dominated landscapes outside protected areas.
AB - The need to capture primary production in order to sustain and improve economic livelihoods has lead to increasing conversion of natural habitat and intensification of agricultural practices in many parts of the world including most tropical regions. Understanding how these processes affect ecosystems and their functioning, in particular in the high-diversity ecosystems of the tropics, has become a key issue in ecological research. In this chapter, our focus is on the agriculture-forest landscapes of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, an island widely known for its endemic yet still poorly known flora and fauna. The rise of the region to one of the largest cacao producing areas in the world is at the core of recent land-use change and intensification processes. Covering plants (trees, rattan palms, herbs, bryophytes) and several invertebrate (ants, dung beetles, cacao insect herbivores, fruit-feeding butterflies, parasitic Hymenoptera, spiders) and vertebrate groups (amphibians, birds, murids, reptiles), we give an in-depth overview of the determinants of biodiversity in cacao landscapes, including both management and landscape-scale variables into our analyses. Results show that shaded agroforests host a rich community of species. By adopting a large-scale study design we showed that proximity of natural forest is a key predictor for species richness of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates alike. Endemics and forest specialists benefit most from indigenous shade tree cover and proximity to natural forest. Importantly, several functionally important groups such as insectivorous and seed-dispersing birds benefit from tall shade trees, shade tree diversity and proximity to forest edge, while parasitoid diversity is greatest close to natural forests. Available data on the effects of landuse change in cacao landscape of Central Sulawesi is increasing. Change in landscape configuration and management practices are being clearly reflected in the composition of species communities, with likely impacts on ecosystem services such as pest control and pollination. More knowledge is needed especially in terms of species interactions and ecosystem functioning, but also on how existing knowledge can contribute to effective conservation in human-dominated landscapes outside protected areas.
KW - Ecosystems Research
KW - agricultural intensification
KW - agroforestry
KW - cacao
KW - cocoa
KW - community structure
KW - Biology
KW - amphibians
KW - ants
KW - arthropods
KW - bees
KW - biodiversity
KW - birds
KW - bryophytes
KW - butterflies
KW - Conopomorpha cramerella
KW - decomposition
KW - dung beetles
KW - forest distance
KW - fungal disease
KW - herbivores
KW - herbivory
KW - herbs
KW - Hymenoptera
KW - insects
KW - land-use change
KW - landscape ecology
KW - lianas
KW - mammals
KW - Muridae
KW - Nymphalidae
KW - parasitoids
KW - pollination
KW - plants
KW - predation
KW - rattan palms
KW - rats
KW - reptiles
KW - shade trees
KW - spiders
KW - Theobroma cacao
KW - trees
KW - trophic interactions
KW - vertebrates Biodiversity and trophic interations in tropical landscapes in Sulawesi
KW - Didactics of sciences education
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00493-3_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00493-3_2
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-642-00492-6
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science)
SP - 15
EP - 71
BT - Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change
A2 - Tscharntke, Teja
A2 - Leuschner, Christoph
A2 - Veldkamp, Edzo
A2 - Faust, Heiko
A2 - Guhardja, Edi
A2 - Bidin, Arifuddin
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -