Selectively Logging Old Growth Rain Forest Twice Changes Canopy Ant Species Composition, While Conversion to Oil Palm Changes Composition and Reduces Species Richness and Diversity

• Main Authors: Amelia J. Philip, Tom M. Fayle, Kalsum M. Yusah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: SD Forestry; SF Animal culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25248/1/Selectively%20Logging%20Old%20Growth%20Rain%20Forest%20Twice%20Changes%20Canopy%20Ant%20Species%20Composition%2C%20While%20Conversion%20to%20Oil%20Palm%20Changes%20Composition%20and%20Reduces%20Species%20Richness%20and%20Diversity.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25248/7/Selectively%20Logging%20Old%20Growth%20Rain%20Forest%20Twice%20Changes%20Canopy%20Ant%20Species%20Composition%2C%20While%20Conversion%20to%20Oil%20Palm%20Changes%20Composition%20and%20Reduces%20Species%20Richness%20and%20Diversity1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25248/

Tropical forests around the world, and particularly in Southeast Asia, are being affected by anthropogenic habitat conversion and degradation. Ants, an ecologically important group in the rainforest canopy, have previously been demonstrated to be robust to a single round of selective logging, but ar...