A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: The stability of altered forest ecosystems project
Opportunities to conduct large-scale field experiments are rare, but provide a unique opportunity to reveal the complex processes that operate within natural ecosystems. Here, we review the design of existing, large-scale forest fragmentation experiments. Based on this review, we develop a design fo...
| Autor principal: | Ewers, Robert M. |
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| Outros Autores: | Didham, Raphael K., Fahrig, Lenore, Ferraz, Gonçalo, Hector, Andy, Holt, Robert D., Kapos, Valerie, Reynolds, Glen, Sinun, Waidi, Snaddon, Jake L., Turner, Edgar C. |
| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/16226 |
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Opportunities to conduct large-scale field experiments are rare, but provide a unique opportunity to reveal the complex processes that operate within natural ecosystems. Here, we review the design of existing, large-scale forest fragmentation experiments. Based on this review, we develop a design for the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project, a new forest fragmentation experiment to be located in the lowland tropical forests of Borneo (Sabah,Malaysia). The SAFE Project represents an advance on existing experiments in that it: (i) allows discrimination of the effects of landscape-level forest cover from patch-level processes; (ii) is designed to facilitate the unification of a wide range of data types on ecological patterns and processes that operate over a wide range of spatial scales; (iii) has greater replication than existing experiments; (iv) incorporates an experimental manipulation of riparian corridors; and (v) embeds the experimentally fragmented landscape within a wider gradient of land-use intensity than do existing projects. The SAFE Project represents an opportunity for ecologists across disciplines to participate in a large initiative designed to generate a broad understanding of the ecological impacts of tropical forest modification. © 2011 The Royal Society. |