Journal
BIOTROPICA
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 636-643Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12248
Keywords
amphibia; canopy cover; deforestation; riparian reserves; tropical rain forest
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- SAFE project
- Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre (KBFSC)
- Danum Valley Conservation Area
- Universiti Brunei Darussalam
- Brunei Darussalam National Development Plan [UBD/GSR/ST/13]
- German Excellence Initiative to the Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Wurzburg
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The conversion of tropical rain forests to oil palm plantations is a major threat to Southeast Asia's rich biodiversity. Fostering forest species communities in secondary forests, agroforestry systems, and plantations is therefore increasingly becoming a conservation focus. This study uses standardized transect-based sampling to compare species richness, density and community composition of stream anuran assemblages among primary forests, repeatedly logged forests and oil palm plantations in northern Borneo. In primary forest streams, we recorded an average of 19 frog species, compared to 15 species in logged forests and 11 species in oil palm plantation streams. However, the high percentage of canopy cover above the plantation streams mitigated this loss to some extent. This study corroborates numerous studies that oil palm plantations have mainly negative effects on the region's biodiversity. However, our results also demonstrate the high conservation value of logged forests for Bornean stream-dependent anurans. We conclude that palm plantations have a largely unused potential to promote regional anuran biodiversity.
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