Marsh, Charles J

Turner, Edgar C

Wong Blonder, Benjamin

Bongalov, Boris

Both, Sabine

Cruz, Rudi S

Elias, Dafydd M O

Hemprich-Bennett, David

Jotan, Palasiah

Kemp, Victoria

Kritzler, Ully H

Milne, Sol

Milodowski, David T

Mitchell, Simon L

Pillco, Milenka Montoya

Nunes, Matheus Henrique

Riutta, Terhi

Robinson, Samuel J B

Slade, Eleanor M

Bernard, Henry

Burslem, David F R P

Chung, Arthur Y C

Clare, Elizabeth L

Coomes, David A

Davies, Zoe G

Edwards, David P

Johnson, David

Kratina, Pavel

Malhi, Yadvinder

Majalap, Noreen

Nilus, Reuben

Ostle, Nicholas J

Rossiter, Stephen J

Struebig, Matthew J

Tobias, Joseph A

Williams, Mathew

Ewers, Robert M

Lewis, Owen T

Reynolds, Glen

Teh, Yit Arn

Hector, Andy

2025-01-09

<p>The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conversion of tropical forest to oil palm from a large-scale study in Borneo, synthesizing responses from 82 variables categorized into four ecological levels spanning a broad suite of ecosystem properties: (i) structure and environment, (ii) species traits, (iii) biodiversity, and (iv) ecosystem functions. Responses were highly heterogeneous and often complex and nonlinear. Variables that were directly impacted by the physical process of timber extraction, such as soil structure, were sensitive to even moderate amounts of logging, whereas measures of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning were generally resilient to logging but more affected by conversion to oil palm plantation.</p>

Science, 387(6730), p. 171-175

1095-9203

0036-8075

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/64634

en

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure

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