TY  - JOUR
A1  - Drescher, Jochen
A1  - Rembold, Katja
A1  - Allen, Kara
A1  - Beckschäfer, Philip
A1  - Buchori, Damayanti
A1  - Clough, Yann
A1  - Faust, Heiko
A1  - Fauzi, Anas M.
A1  - Gunawan, Dodo
A1  - Hertel, Dietrich
A1  - Irawan, Bambang
A1  - Jaya, I. Nengah S.
A1  - Klarner, Bernhard
A1  - Kleinn, Christoph
A1  - Knohl, Alexander
A1  - Kotowska, Martyna M.
A1  - Krashevska, Valentyna
A1  - Krishna, Vijesh
A1  - Leuschner, Christoph
A1  - Lorenz, Wolfram
A1  - Meijide, Ana
A1  - Melati, Dian
A1  - Nomura, Miki
A1  - Pérez-Cruzado, César
A1  - Qaim, Matin
A1  - Siregar, Iskandar Z.
A1  - Steinebach, Stefanie
A1  - Tjoa, Aiyen
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
A1  - Wick, Barbara
A1  - Wiegand, Kerstin
A1  - Kreft, Holger
A1  - Scheu, Stefan
T1  - Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion
Y1  - 2016
VL  - 371
IS  - 1694
SP  - 20150275
JF  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DO  - 10.1098/rstb.2015.0275
DO  - 10.23689/fidgeo-2569
N2  - Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary EFForTS project focuses on the ecological and socio-economic dimensions of rainforest conversion to jungle rubber agroforests and monoculture plantations of rubber and oil palm. Our data confirm that rainforest transformation and land use intensification lead to substantial losses in biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, such as decreased above- and below-ground carbon stocks. Owing to rapid step-wise transformation from forests to agroforests to monoculture plantations and renewal of each plantation type every few decades, the converted land use systems are continuously dynamic, thus hampering the adaptation of animal and plant communities. On the other hand, agricultural rainforest transformation systems provide increased income and access to education, especially for migrant smallholders. Jungle rubber and rubber monocultures are associated with higher financial land productivity but lower financial labour productivity compared to oil palm, which influences crop choice: smallholders that are labour-scarce would prefer oil palm while land-scarce smallholders would prefer rubber. Collecting long-term data in an interdisciplinary context enables us to provide decision-makers and stakeholders with scientific insights to facilitate the reconciliation between economic interests and ecological sustainability in tropical agricultural landscapes.
UR  - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/6882
ER  -