Aboveground biodiversity patterns and processes across rainforest transformation landscapes (B09)

• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

Improving ecological and socioeconomic functionality of transformation landscapes is a major challenge. We focus on aboveground animal biodiversity patterns and ecological functions in relation to local management of oil palm and rubber plantations and enrichment plantings. We coordinate and use the Landscape Assessment to analyse scale-dependent effects of management and spatial heterogeneity on the diversity of arthropods, birds and bats, ecosystem functions (e.g. predation, pollination) and population growth of stingless bees. Additionally, implications of environmental processes and socioeconomic outcomes on biodiversity and ecosystem functions will be analysed.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Yann Clough, until 12/2015; Professor Dr. Ingo Grass; Professor Dr. Teja Tscharntke, until 12/2019; Professorin Dr. Catrin Westphal, since 1/2020