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Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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  • Andrew D. Barnes

    (J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen)

  • Malte Jochum

    (J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen)

  • Steffen Mumme

    (J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen)

  • Noor Farikhah Haneda

    (Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University)

  • Achmad Farajallah

    (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University)

  • Tri Heru Widarto

    (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University)

  • Ulrich Brose

    (J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen)

Abstract

Our knowledge about land-use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is mostly limited to single trophic levels, leaving us uncertain about whole-community biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. We analyse consequences of the globally important land-use transformation from tropical forests to oil palm plantations. Species diversity, density and biomass of invertebrate communities suffer at least 45% decreases from rainforest to oil palm. Combining metabolic and food-web theory, we calculate annual energy fluxes to model impacts of land-use intensification on multitrophic ecosystem functioning. We demonstrate a 51% reduction in energy fluxes from forest to oil palm communities. Species loss clearly explains variation in energy fluxes; however, this relationship depends on land-use systems and functional feeding guilds, whereby predators are the most heavily affected. Biodiversity decline from forest to oil palm is thus accompanied by even stronger reductions in functionality, threatening to severely limit the functional resilience of communities to cope with future global changes.

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  • Andrew D. Barnes & Malte Jochum & Steffen Mumme & Noor Farikhah Haneda & Achmad Farajallah & Tri Heru Widarto & Ulrich Brose, 2014. "Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms6351
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6351
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