Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last decades, Southeast Asia has experienced massive conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm monoculture plantations. The effects of this land-use change on canopy arthropods are still largely unknown. Arboreal Collembola are among the most abundant canopy arthropods in tropical forests, potentially forming a major component of the canopy food web by contributing to the decomposition of arboreal litter and being an important prey for canopy arthropod predators. We investigated abundance, richness, and community composition of, as well as the influence of a series of environmental factors on, canopy Collembola communities in four land-use systems in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia: (1) lowland rainforest, (2) jungle rubber (rubber agroforest), and mono

SUBMITTER: Mawan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9753237 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature