Structure and functioning of the decomposer system in lowland rainforest transformation systems (B08)

该项目调查了分解者食物网的结构和功能的变化，以及印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛热带低地雨林转变为橡胶和棕榈油种植园的情况。该项目的重点是土壤食物网对景观一级雨林转换的反应的空间和时间变化，以及对树木多样性和种植园系统管理变化的反应。总的来说，该项目旨在揭示热带雨林和种植园系统土壤动物群落的结构和能量通量的一般规律，从而促进生物多样性的保护和可持续土地使用系统的发展。

The project investigates changes in the structure and functioning of decomposer food webs with conversion of tropical lowland rainforests into rubber and palm oil plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia. The project focuses on spatial and temporal variations of the response of soil food webs to rainforest conversion at the landscape level as well as responses to variations in tree diversity and management of plantation systems. Overall, the project aims at uncovering generalities on the structure of and energy flux through soil animal communities of tropical rainforest and plantation systems thereby contributing to biodiversity conservation and the development of sustainable land-use systems.