RT Journal Article
T1 Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion
A1 Drescher, Jochen
A1 Rembold, Katja
A1 Allen, Kara
A1 Beckschäfer, Philip
A1 Buchori, Damayanti
A1 Clough, Yann
A1 Faust, Heiko
A1 Fauzi, Anas M.
A1 Gunawan, Dodo
A1 Hertel, Dietrich
A1 Irawan, Bambang
A1 Jaya, I. Nengah S.
A1 Klarner, Bernhard
A1 Kleinn, Christoph
A1 Knohl, Alexander
A1 Kotowska, Martyna M.
A1 Krashevska, Valentyna
A1 Krishna, Vijesh
A1 Leuschner, Christoph
A1 Lorenz, Wolfram
A1 Meijide, Ana
A1 Melati, Dian
A1 Nomura, Miki
A1 Pérez Cruzado, César
A1 Qaim, Matin
A1 Siregar, Iskandar Z.
A1 Steinebach, Stefanie
A1 Tjoa, Aiyen
A1 Tscharntke, Teja
A1 Wick, Barbara
A1 Wiegand, Kerstin
A1 Kreft, Holger
A1 Scheu, Stefan
K1 Agroforestry
K1 Biodiversity and ecosystem function
K1 Deforestation
K1 EFForTS
K1 Oil palm
K1 Jungle rubber
AB 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, such as decreased above- and below-ground carbon stocks. Owing to rapid step-wise transformation from forests to agroforests to monoculture plantations and renewal of each plantation type every few decades, the converted land use systems are continuously dynamic, thus hampering the adaptation of animal and plant communities. On the other hand, agricultural rainforest transformation systems provide increased income and access to education, especially for migrant smallholders. Jungle rubber and rubber monocultures are associated with higher financial land productivity but lower financial labour productivity compared to oil palm, which influences crop choice: smallholders that are labour-scarce would prefer oil palm while land-scarce smallholders would prefer rubber. Collecting long-term data in an interdisciplinary context enables us to provide decision-makers and stakeholders with scientific insights to facilitate the reconciliation between economic interests and ecological sustainability in tropical agricultural landscapes.
PB Royal Society of London
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41108
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41108
LA eng
NO Drescher, J., Rembold, K., Allen, K., Beckscha, P., Buchori, D., Clough, Y., Faust, H., Fauzi, A.M., Gunawan, D., Hertel, D., Irawan, B., I. Jaya, I.N.S., Klarner, B., Kleinn, C., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M.M., Krashevska, V., Krishna, V., Leuschner, C,…Scheu, S. (2016). Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Series B, Biological sciences, 371, 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0275
NO EFForTS is financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 990
DS Minerva
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