A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project
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Opportunities to conduct large-scale field experiments are rare, but provide a unique opportunity to reveal the complex processes that operate within natural ecosystems. Here, we review the design of existing, large-scale forest fragmentation experiments. Based on this review, we develop a design for the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project, a new forest fragmentation experiment to be located in the lowland tropical forests of Borneo (Sabah, Malaysia). The SAFE Project represents an advance on existing experiments in that it: (i) allows discrimination of the effects of landscape-level forest cover from patch-level processes; (ii) is designed to facilitate the unification of a wide range of data types on ecological patterns and processes that operate over a wide range of spatial scales; (iii) has greater replication than existing experiments; (iv) incorporates an experimental manipulation of riparian corridors; and (v) embeds the experimentally fragmented landscape within a wider gradient of land-use intensity than do existing projects. The SAFE Project represents an opportunity for ecologists across disciplines to participate in a large initiative designed to generate a broad understanding of the ecological impacts of tropical forest modification.
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- Authors
- Ewers, R. M., Didham, R. K., Fahrig, L., Ferraz, G., Hector, A., Holt, R. D., Kapos, V., Reynolds, G., Sinun, W., Snaddon, J. L., & Turner, E. C.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
- Carleton University (CA)
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (PA)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Florida (US)
- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (GB)
- Royal Society (GB)
- Conservation and Environmental Management Division, Yayasan Sabah Group, Menara Tun Mustapha, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 88817, Malaysia
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ewers, Robert M.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2011-11-27
- Volume
- 366
- Issue
- 1582
- Pages
- 3292-3302
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC3179633
- OpenAlex
- W2141611781
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 58
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- FWCI
- 0.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Yayasan Sime Darby
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Keywords
- forest fragmentation, large-scale field experiment, experimental design, lowland tropical forest, landscape-scale effects, riparian corridors, ecosystem stability, replication, Borneo
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Altitude, Borneo, Conservation of Natural Resources, Malaysia, Trees, Tropical Climate, Ecosystem, Arecaceae
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