Riparian reserves within oil palm plantations conserve logged forest leaf litter ant communities and maintain associated scavenging rates

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-40

  Gray, Claudia L ^a,b   Lewis, Owen T ^a   Chung, Arthur Y C ^c   Fayle, Tom M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Bait removal; Biodiversity conservation; Borneo; Formicidae; Riparian buffer; Riparian strips; Tropical forest fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ANT; BAIT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LAND USE; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

ELAEIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84921608085     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12371     Document Type: Article

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