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BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
卷 39, 期 -, 页码 26-37出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2019.06.008
关键词
Deforestation; Extinction thresholds; Ant-following birds; Oil palm; West Africa
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资金
- Heinrich-Boll Foundation
- Volkswagen Foundation
Afrotropical ant-following birds are vulnerable to forest loss and disturbance, but critical habitat thresholds regarding their abundance and species richness in human-dominated landscapes, including industrial oil palm plantations, have never been assessed. We measured forest cover through Landsat imagery and recorded species richness and relative abundance of 20 ant-following birds in 48 plots of 1-km(2), covering three landscapes of Southwest Cameroon: Korup National Park, smallholder agroforestry areas (with farms embedded in forest), and an industrial oil palm plantation. We evaluated differences in encounter frequency and species richness among landscapes, and the presence of critical thresholds through enhanced adaptive regression through hinges. All species were detected in Korup National Park and the agroforestry landscape, which had similar forest cover (>85%). Only nine species were found in the oil palm plantation (forest cover = 10.3 +/- 3.3%). At the 1-km(2) scale, the number of species and bird encounters were comparable in agroforests and the protected area: mean species richness ranged from 12.2 +/- 0.6 in the park and 12.2 +/- 0.6 in the agroforestry matrix to 1.0 +/- 0.4 in the industrial oil palm plantation; whereas encounters decreased from 34.4 +/- 3.2 to 26.1 +/- 2.9 and 1.3 +/- 0.4, respectively. Bird encounters decreased linearly with decreasing forest cover, down to an extinction threshold identified at 24% forest cover. Species richness declined linearly by ca. one species per 7.4% forest cover lost. We identified an extinction threshold at 52% forest cover for the most sensitive species (Criniger chloronotus, Dicrurus atripennis, and Neocossyphus poensis). Our results show that substantial proportions of forests are required to sustain complete ant-following bird assemblages in Afrotropical landscapes and confirm the high sensitivity of this bird guild to deforestation after industrial oil palm development. Securing both forest biodiversity and food production in an Afrotropical production landscape may be best attained through a combination of protected areas and wildlife-friendly agroforestry. (C) 2019 Gesellschaft fur Okologie. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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