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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

RIV/60077344:_____/15:00442763 - isvavai.cz

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888800

Výsledek na webu

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12371/epdf

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

10.1111/1365-2664.12371

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EH - Ekologie – společenstva

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

Výsledek vznikl pri realizaci vícero projektů. Více informací v záložce Projekty.

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Applied Ecology

ISSN

0021-8901

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

52

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

31-40

Kód UT WoS článku

000348740800005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84921608085