Size does matter – effects of tropical rainforest fragmentation on the leaf litter ant community in Sabah, Malaysia

By C. Brühl, T. Eltz, K. Linsenmair. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Y. Clough
2. T. Tscharntke
3. Lian Pin Koh
4. N. Sodhi
5. R. G. Davies
6. C. Brühl
7. T. Eltz
8. Thomas Cherico Wanger

In Genetics

1. R. G. Davies
2. C. Brühl
3. T. Eltz
4. Lian Pin Koh
5. P. Eggleton
6. N. Sodhi
7. T. Tscharntke
8. Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Lian Pin Koh
2. N. Sodhi
3. T. Lee
4. Y. Clough
5. T. Tscharntke
6. C. Brühl
7. T. Eltz
8. R. G. Davies

Citations in the corpus

• Long‐term effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian ant communities (2006, background): “Brühl et al. (2003) have reported that, in Malaysia, even fragments of c. 4000 ha support less than half of the litter-dwelling ant species found in continuous forest.”
• Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “Species density was also lower in the fragments and community composition was substantially altered, with an increase in the abundance of wide-ranging opportunistic species with decreasing fragment size (Brühl et al., 2003).”
• How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity? (2008, background): “Thus, forest fragments isolated within oil palm plantations supported fewer than half as many ant species as nearby continuous forests, and a greater number of invasive ‘tramp’ species were found in the smallest fragments [ 52 ].”
• Fuelling the biodiversity crisis: species loss of ground-dwelling forest ants in oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo) (2010, methodology): “Ant diversity was also reduced in smaller primary forest fragments (Brühl et al. 2003) where the genetic diversity of forest litter ants was affected as well (Bickel et al. 2006), implying that ant populations in forest remnants were effectively isolated.”
• Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo (2014, background): “Invasive and generalist species dominate ant assemblages in oil palm plantation (Brühl et al. 2003; Fayle et al. 2010).”