Edwards, David P. and Hodgson, Jenny A. and Hamer, Keith C. and Mitchell, Simon L. and Abdul Hamid Ahmad and Cornell, Stephen J. and Wilcove, David S. (2010) Wildlife-friendly oil palm plantations fail to protect biodiversity effectively. Conservation Letters, 3 (4). pp. 236-242. ISSN 1755-263X
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Abstract
Expansion of agriculture is a principal driver of biodiversity losses in the tropics, prompting suggestions that plantations should be made more hospitable to wildlife. Such "wildlife-friendly" practices contrast with the alternative "land sparing" strategy, which promotes separation of agricultural and conservation areas. Focusing on the wildlife-friendly strategy of retaining fragments of forest within the agricultural matrix, here we report the abundance and diversity of birds within oil palm plantations, fragments, and contiguous forest. Abundances of imperiled bird species were 60 times lower in fragments and 200 times lower in oil palm than in contiguous forest. Forest fragments also did not increase bird abundances in adjacent oil palm, had lower species richness than contiguous forest, and had an avifaunal composition that was more similar to oil palm than to contiguous forest. Therefore, from a conservation perspective, any investment in the retention of fragments would be better directed toward the protection of contiguous forest.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Agricultural Sustainability, Forest Fragments, Conservation, Landscapes, Birds, Butterflies, Habitat, Land |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SB Plant culture > SB1-1110 Plant culture > SB183-317 Field crops Including cereals, forage crops, grasses, legumes, root crops, sugar plants, textile plants, alkaloidal plants, medicinal plants ?? QH77_T78J68 ?? H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28-9999 Industries. Land use. Labor > HD9000-9999 Special industries and trades > HD9000-9495 Agricultural industries |
| Department: | INSTITUTE > Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation |
| Depositing User: | ADMIN ADMIN |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2011 15:20 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2017 10:46 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/2262 |
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