Land-use effects on local biodiversity in tropical forests vary between continents.

ABSTRACT: Land-use change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, especially in the tropics where secondary and plantation forests are expanding while primary forest is declining. Understanding how well these disturbed habitats maintain biodiversity is therefore important-specifically how the maturity of secondary forest and the management intensity of plantation forest affect levels of biodiversity. Previous studies have shown that the biotas of different continents respond differently to land use. Any continental differences in the response could be due to differences in land-use intensity and maturity of secondary vegetation or to differences among species in their sensitivity to disturbances. We tested these hypotheses using an extensive dataset collated from published biodiversity compa

SUBMITTER: Phillips HRP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6979682 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature