2016
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0275
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Abstract: Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary EFForTS project focuses on the ecological and socio-economic dimensions of rainforest conversion to jungle rubber agroforests and monoculture plantations of rubber and oil palm. Our data confirm that rainforest transformation and land use intensification lead to substantial losses in biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, su… Show more

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“…Different effects of grassland management on plant species richness and productivity resulted in a wide-range ecosystem-specific BEF relationships that were either positive, neutral or negative [61]. Similarly, another article of this special issue studies the effects of land use changes and anthropogenic impacts on BEF relationships in a tropical landscape [62]. Rainforest transformation and land use intensification reduced both biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, such that economic interests and ecological properties need to be addressed jointly to inform stakeholders and decision-makers about the trade-off between crop choices and the stability of biodiversity and ecosystem functions [62].…”
Section: Issue (2): Non-equilibrium Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functimentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Different effects of grassland management on plant species richness and productivity resulted in a wide-range ecosystem-specific BEF relationships that were either positive, neutral or negative [61]. Similarly, another article of this special issue studies the effects of land use changes and anthropogenic impacts on BEF relationships in a tropical landscape [62]. Rainforest transformation and land use intensification reduced both biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, such that economic interests and ecological properties need to be addressed jointly to inform stakeholders and decision-makers about the trade-off between crop choices and the stability of biodiversity and ecosystem functions [62].…”
Section: Issue (2): Non-equilibrium Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, another article of this special issue studies the effects of land use changes and anthropogenic impacts on BEF relationships in a tropical landscape [62]. Rainforest transformation and land use intensification reduced both biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, such that economic interests and ecological properties need to be addressed jointly to inform stakeholders and decision-makers about the trade-off between crop choices and the stability of biodiversity and ecosystem functions [62]. Together, these studies highlight that anthropogenic management of ecosystems can have a tremendous effect on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships strongly contrasting with those frequently observed in controlled experimental studies.…”
Section: Issue (2): Non-equilibrium Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indonesia is one of the regions where the expansion of cash crop monocultures such as acacia (timber plantations), rubber, oil palm plantations and smallholder agriculture has drastically reduced the area of primary forest in the last 2.5 decades (Bridhikitti and Overcamp, 2012;Drescher et al, 2016;Marlier et al, 2015;Miettinen et al, 2012;Verstraeten et al, 2005). This large-scale conversion of rainforest for agricultural use has been observed on the island of Sumatra, which has experienced the highest primary rainforest cover loss in all of Indonesia (Drescher et al, 2016;Margono et al, 2012;Miettinen et al, 2011).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This large-scale conversion of rainforest for agricultural use has been observed on the island of Sumatra, which has experienced the highest primary rainforest cover loss in all of Indonesia (Drescher et al, 2016;Margono et al, 2012;Miettinen et al, 2011). Forest cover in the Sumatran provinces of Riau, North Sumatra and Jambi declined from 93 to 38 % of provincial area between 197738 % of provincial area between and 200938 % of provincial area between (Mietti-nen et al, 2012.…”
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