Oil palm monoculture induces drastic erosion of an Amazonian forest mammal fauna.

ABSTRACT: Oil palm monoculture comprises one of the most financially attractive land-use options in tropical forests, but cropland suitability overlaps the distribution of many highly threatened vertebrate species. We investigated how forest mammals respond to a landscape mosaic, including mature oil palm plantations and primary forest patches in Eastern Amazonia. Using both line-transect censuses (LTC) and camera-trapping (CT), we quantified the general patterns of mammal community structure and attempted to identify both species life-history traits and the environmental and spatial covariates that govern species intolerance to oil palm monoculture. Considering mammal species richness, abundance, and species composition, oil palm plantations were consistently depauperate compared to the adjacent pr

SUBMITTER: Mendes-Oliveira AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695600 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature