From rainforest to oil palm plantations: Shifts in predator population and prey communities, but resistant interactions

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F14%3A43887599" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/14:43887599 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/14:00436585
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000596" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000596</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2014.10.011" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gecco.2014.10.011</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From rainforest to oil palm plantations: Shifts in predator population and prey communities, but resistant interactions
Original language description
Anthropogenic habitat change can dramatically alter biotic communities in tropical landscapes. Species that persist in human dominated landscapes are therefore likely to modify the way they interact. Although human impacts on community composition are relatively well studied, changes in species interactions are less well documented. Here we assess how logging of rainforest and conversion to oil palm plantations affects the populations of the ant-specialist giant river toad (Phrynoidis juxtaspera), and the availability and composition of its ant prey. We measured canopy cover as an estimate for the degree of disturbance and found that toad abundance decreased with increasing disturbance, and that retaining riparian vegetation should therefore help conserve this species. Both abundance and species richness of local ground-foraging ants increased with disturbance, and ant community composition was altered. Despite these changes, composition of ants consumed by toads was only weakly affect
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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