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DOI 10.1007/s10021-002-0121-9
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Titel (primär) Simulating the long-term response of tropical wet forests to fragmentation
Autor Köhler, P.; Chave, J.; Riéra, B.; Huth, A.
Quelle Ecosystems
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
Department OESA
Band/Volume 6
Heft 2
Seite von 114
Seite bis 128
Sprache englisch
Abstract

In the coming decades, a large fraction of the world's tropical forests will be fragmented into remnants surrounded by secondary vegetation, land-use areas, or roads. It is important to develop integrative tools to monitor the evolution of these fragmented ecosystems. We used the individual-oriented and process-based forest growth simulator FORMIND2.0 to investigate the spatial and temporal effects on standing biomass and functional diversity of various intensities and patterns of fragmentation within a forest landscape. The simulator was calibrated for an old-growth wet forest in French Guiana, South America. We found that the standing biomass of forest remnants was reduced significantly compared to a similar area of nonfragmented forest. When fewer but larger remnants were created rather than many small ones, the total loss in biomass and the increase in the abundance of early-successional species were significantly reduced, confirming that edge effects dominate the functioning of forest remnants. We also performed simulations of secondary succession after the landscape had been abandoned. The simulated recovery time in those secondary forests depends on both the size of cleared area and the spatial pattern of the remnant forests.

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Köhler, P., Chave, J., Riéra, B., Huth, A. (2003):
Simulating the long-term response of tropical wet forests to fragmentation
Ecosystems 6 (2), 114 - 128 10.1007/s10021-002-0121-9