Key environmental factors underlying terrestrial arthropod abundance and diversity in alley-cropping and monoculture oil palm plantations

• Main Authors: Ashraf, Mohamad, Hosaka, Tetsuro, Norhisham, Ahmad R., Sanusi, Ruzana, Tohiran, Kamil A., Zulkifli, Raja, Azhar, Badrul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology 2023
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109539/1/advpub_MS22-10.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109539/; https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tropics/32/2/32_MS22-10/_article

Oil palms are extensively planted in tropical countries and causing a severe decline in biodiversity. Alley-cropping is an agroforestry practice that has been proven to sustain greater diversity of terrestrial arthropods than monoculture plantations. However, the environmental factors responsible fo...