Riparian reserves within oil palm plantations conserve logged forest leaf litter ant communities and maintain associated scavenging rates

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888800

Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12371/epdf" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12371/epdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12371" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2664.12371</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Riparian reserves within oil palm plantations conserve logged forest leaf litter ant communities and maintain associated scavenging rates

Original language description

Expansion of oil palm plantation is a major threat to rain forest ecosystems in SE Asia. When forests are cleared for plantations, strips of vegetation are often left adjacent to rivers and streams, with the intention of maintaining water quality. We investigated the leaf litter ant communities supported by these "riparian reserves", and also measured the associated rate of ant-mediated scavenging. We found that riparian reserves maintain similar numbers of ant species and similar rates of ant scavenging to continuous areas of forest, and both ant richness and scavenging rate was higher than that in adjacent oil palm plantation. Hence riparian reserves have the potential to maintain ecosystem functioning in oil palm plantations, at least in terms of leaf litter ants and their scavenging activities

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - 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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Applied Ecology

ISSN

0021-8901

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

31-40

UT code for WoS article

000348740800005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84921608085