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The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conversion of tropical forest to oil palm from a large-scale study in Borneo, synthesizing responses from 82 variables categorized into four ecological levels spanning a broad suite of ecosystem properties: (i) structure and environment, (ii) species traits, (iii) biodiversity, and (iv) ecosystem functions. Responses were highly heterogeneous and often complex and nonlinear. Variables that were directly impacted by the physical process of timber extraction, such as soil structure, were sensitive to even moderate amounts of logging, whereas measures of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning were generally resilient to logging but more affected by conversion to oil palm plantation.
Author(s): Marsh CJ, Turner EC, Blonder BW, Bongalov B, Both S, Cruz RS, Elias DMO, Hemprich-Bennett D, Jotan P, Kemp V, Kritzler UH, Milne S, Milodowski DT, Mitchell SL, Pillco MM, Nunes MH, Riutta T, Robinson SJB, Slade EM, Bernard H, Burslem DFRP, Chung AYC, Clare EL, Coomes DA, Davies ZG, Edwards DP, Johnson D, Kratina P, Malhi Y, Majalap N, Nilus R, Ostle NJ, Rossiter SJ, Struebig MJ, Tobias JA, Williams M, Ewers RM, Lewis OT, Reynolds G, Teh YA, Hector A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Science
Year: 2025
Volume: 387
Issue: 6730
Pages: 171-175
Print publication date: 10/01/2025
Online publication date: 09/01/2025
Acceptance date: 19/11/2024
Date deposited: 31/01/2025
ISSN (print): 0036-8075
ISSN (electronic): 1095-9203
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
URL: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf9856
DOI: 10.1126/science.adf9856
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/ts9x-1z59
Data Access Statement: Markdown documents containing R code and their outputs for the exploration of data, analysis and presentation of results for all 82 variables used in the study, and the processed z-score–standardized data are available at https://zenodo.org/records/13161799 (47). The DOIs for archived versions of the raw data for all datasets are listed in the methods and tables S2 to S5.
PubMed id: 39787239
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