Abstract:Tropical rainforests around the world are rapidly converted into cash
crop agricultural systems. The associated massive losses of plant and
animal species lead to changes in arthropod food webs and the energy
fluxes therein. These changes are poorly understood, in particular in
the extremely biodiverse canopies of tropical ecosystems. Using canopy
fogging followed by stable isotope and energy flux analyses, we show
that land-use conversion from rainforest to rubber and oil palm
plantations not only causes a dr… Show more
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