Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F21%3A43919652" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/21:43919652 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/21:89486
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20811-y" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20811-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20811-y" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-020-20811-y</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño
Original language description
The past 40 years in Southeast Asia have seen about 50% of lowland rainforests converted to oil palm and other plantations, and much of the remaining forest heavily logged. Little is known about how fragmentation influences recovery and whether climate change will hamper restoration. Here, we use repeat airborne LiDAR surveys spanning the hot and dry 2015-16 El Niño Southern Oscillation event to measure canopy height growth across 3,300 ha of regenerating tropical forests spanning a logging intensity gradient in Malaysian Borneo. We show that the drought led to increased leaf shedding and branch fall. Short forest, regenerating after heavy logging, continued to grow despite higher evaporative demand, except when it was located close to oil palm plantations. Edge effects from the plantations extended over 300 metres into the forests. Forest growth on hilltops and slopes was particularly impacted by the combination of fragmentation and drought, but even riparian forests located within 40 m of oil palm plantations lost canopy height during the drought. Our results suggest that small patches of logged forest within plantation landscapes will be slow to recover, particularly as ENSO events are becoming more frequent.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40102 - Forestry

Project
<a href="/en/project/LTT17017" target="_blank" >LTT17017: Participation of Czech scientists in the SBE experiment</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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