Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functions and Policy Across a Tropical Forest Modification Gradient

热带森林改造梯度的生物多样性、生态系统功能和政策

• 批准号: NE/K016407/1
• 负责人: Zoe Davies
• 金额: $ 50.18万
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FK016407%2F1
• 关键词: Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Functions; Policy; Across

Tropical forests support over two-thirds of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. However, between 35% and 50% of tropical forests have already been degraded, and the rate of deforestation continues to increase. Secondary forests, plantations and other human-modified habitats now dominate tropical landscapes, leading to concerns that human degradation of these landscapes will elevate greenhouse gas emissions and jeopardise ecosystem services at local, regional and global scales. The area of protected forests is unlikely to increase greatly in the future, so the persistence of tropical biodiversity and the important biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem services associated with it will depend to a large extent on the way we treat the wider tropical landscape. The Human Modified Tropical Forests programme seeks to 'significantly improve our understanding of the links between biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles in tropical forests' through 'integrated observations and modelling linked to gradients in forest modification'. To contribute towards this goal our consortium will use surveys along a modification gradient within the SAFE landscape in Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) to detect patterns, combined with manipulative field experiments to gain a mechanistic understanding of biodiversity-function linkages. We will assess links between above- and belowground components of tropical biodiversity and investigate the extent to which different elements of biodiversity (e.g. species of conservation concern) are associated with measures of ecosystem function (decomposition processes and biogeochemical cycles). We will then upscale from the experimental sites to the landscape-scale to generate spatial layers of ecosystem function, biodiversity, and greenhouse gas fluxes to inform policy scenario modelling. Our work will thus (1) characterise soil microbial function and measuring associated biogeochemical fluxes; (2) Experimentally test the links between aboveground biodiversity and soil function; (3) Build and add to existing datasets for bird and mammals, and explore correlations between ecosystem functioning and the distribution of species of conservation concern; and (4) Explore policy scenarios for optimising biodiversity and function protection.

热带森林支持着世界上三分之二以上的陆地生物多样性。然而，35%至50%的热带森林已经退化，森林砍伐率继续增加。次生林、种植园和其他人为改变的生境现在占据了热带景观的主导地位，导致人们担心这些景观的人为退化将增加温室气体排放，并在地方、区域和全球范围内危害生态系统服务。受保护森林的面积今后不大可能大幅增加，因此，热带生物多样性的持久性以及与之相关的重要生物地球化学循环和生态系统服务将在很大程度上取决于我们如何对待更广泛的热带景观。人类改造热带森林计划旨在通过“与森林改造梯度相关的综合观察和建模”，“显着提高我们对热带森林生物多样性和生物地球化学循环之间联系的理解”。为了实现这一目标，我们的财团将使用调查沿着修改梯度内的安全景观在沙巴（马来西亚婆罗洲）检测模式，结合操作的实地实验，以获得机械的理解生物多样性功能的联系。我们将评估热带生物多样性的地上和地下组成部分之间的联系，并调查生物多样性的不同元素（例如保护关注的物种）与生态系统功能（分解过程和生物地球化学循环）的措施之间的联系。然后，我们将从实验地点升级到生态系统规模，以生成生态系统功能，生物多样性和温室气体通量的空间层，为政策情景建模提供信息。因此，我们的工作将（1）研究土壤微生物功能并测量相关的生物地球化学通量;（2）实验性地测试地上生物多样性与土壤功能之间的联系;（3）建立并增加现有的鸟类和哺乳动物数据集，并探索生态系统功能与受保护物种分布之间的相关性;（4）探索优化生物多样性和功能保护的政策方案。

项目成果

Leech blood-meal invertebrate-derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats.

• DOI: 10.1111/mec.15724
• 发表时间: 2021-07
• 期刊: Molecular ecology
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Drinkwater R;Jucker T;Potter JHT;Swinfield T;Coomes DA;Slade EM;Gilbert MTP;Lewis OT;Bernard H;Struebig MJ;Clare EL;Rossiter SJ
• 通讯作者: Rossiter SJ

Maximizing the value of forest restoration for tropical mammals by detecting three-dimensional habitat associations.

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001823117
• 发表时间: 2020-10-20
• 期刊: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Deere NJ;Guillera-Arroita G;Swinfield T;Milodowski DT;Coomes DA;Bernard H;Reynolds G;Davies ZG;Struebig MJ
• 通讯作者: Struebig MJ

Importance of Small Forest Fragments in Agricultural Landscapes for Maintaining Orangutan Metapopulations

• DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.560944
• 发表时间: 2021-02-04
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Ancrenaz, Marc;Oram, Felicity;Meijaard, Erik
• 通讯作者: Meijaard, Erik

High Carbon Stock forests provide co-benefits for tropical biodiversity

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13023
• 发表时间: 2018-03-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Deere, Nicolas J.;Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta;Struebig, Matthew J.
• 通讯作者: Struebig, Matthew J.

Enhancing the ecological value of oil palm agriculture through set-asides

• DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-01049-6
• 发表时间: 2023-02-06
• 期刊: NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
• 影响因子: 27.6
• 作者: Bicknell, Jake E.;O'Hanley, Jesse R.;Davies, Zoe G.
• 通讯作者: Davies, Zoe G.