Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics
dc.contributor.author | Malhi, Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Riutta, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Wearn, OR | |
dc.contributor.author | Deere, NJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Mitchell, SL | |
dc.contributor.author | Bernard, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Majalap, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Nilus, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, ZG | |
dc.contributor.author | Ewers, RM | |
dc.contributor.author | Struebig, MJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-18T15:40:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12-14 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-01-18T13:40:24Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Old-growth tropical forests are widely recognized as being immensely important for their biodiversity and high biomass1. Conversely, logged tropical forests are usually characterized as degraded ecosystems2. However, whether logging results in a degradation in ecosystem functions is less clear: shifts in the strength and resilience of key ecosystem processes in large suites of species have rarely been assessed in an ecologically integrated and quantitative framework. Here we adopt an ecosystem energetics lens to gain new insight into the impacts of tropical forest disturbance on a key integrative aspect of ecological function: food pathways and community structure of birds and mammals. We focus on a gradient spanning old-growth and logged forests and oil palm plantations in Borneo. In logged forest there is a 2.5-fold increase in total resource consumption by both birds and mammals compared to that in old-growth forests, probably driven by greater resource accessibility and vegetation palatability. Most principal energetic pathways maintain high species diversity and redundancy, implying maintained resilience. Conversion of logged forest into oil palm plantation results in the collapse of most energetic pathways. Far from being degraded ecosystems, even heavily logged forests can be vibrant and diverse ecosystems with enhanced levels of ecological function. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sime Darby Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Bat Conservation International | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 707-713 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 612, No. 7941, pp. 707-713 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05523-1 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/K016407/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/K016377/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132266 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-8308-5307 (Riutta, Terhi) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36517596 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ecosystem | en_GB |
dc.subject | Forests | en_GB |
dc.subject | Biodiversity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Borneo | en_GB |
dc.subject | Biomass | en_GB |
dc.subject | Birds | en_GB |
dc.subject | Conservation of Natural Resources | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tropical Climate | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mammals | en_GB |
dc.title | Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-18T15:40:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The per species energetics data and REM parameters (mammals) are available in Supplementary Data 1 and 2. | en_GB |
dc.description | Code availability: The code for processing and statistically analysing the data is available as Supplementary Methods. The REM analysis code is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request or from supplementary methods of ref. 38. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1476-4687 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-11-03 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-12-14 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-01-18T15:34:55Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-01-18T15:40:15Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-12-14 |
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