| Title: |
Cost-effectiveness of plant and animal biodiversity indicators in tropical forest and agroforest habitats |
| Authors: |
Kessler, Michael; Abrahamczyk, Stefan; Bos, Merijn M.; Buchori, Damayanti; Putra, Dadang Dwi; Robbert Gradstein, S.; Höhn, Patrick; Kluge, Jürgen; Orend, Friederike; Pitopang, Ramadhanil; Saleh, Shahabuddin; Schulze, Christian H.; Sporn, Simone G.; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tjitrosoedirdjo, Sri Sudarmiyati; Tscharntke, Teja |
| Contributors: |
Kessler, Michael; Abrahamczyk, Stefan; Bos, Merijn M.; Buchori, Damayanti; Putra, Dadang Dwi; Robbert Gradstein, S.; Höhn, Patrick; Kluge, Jürgen; Orend, Friederike; Pitopang, Ramadhanil; Saleh, Shahabuddin; Schulze, Christian H.; Sporn, Simone G.; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tjitrosoedirdjo, Sri Sudarmiyati; Tscharntke, Teja |
| Publication Year: |
2010 |
| Collection: |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: GoeScholar |
| Description: |
1. Biodiversity data are needed for conservation and management of tropical habitats, but the high diversity of these ecosystems makes comprehensive surveys prohibitively expensive and indicator taxa reflecting the biodiversity patterns of other taxa are frequently used. Few studies have produced the necessary comprehensive data sets to assess the quality of the indicator groups, however, and only one previous study has considered the monetary costs involved in sampling them.2. We surveyed four plant groups (herbs, liverworts, trees, lianas) and eight animal groups (ants, canopy and dung beetles, birds, butterflies, bees, wasps and the parasitoids of the latter two) in 15 plots of 50 × 50 m2 each, representing undisturbed rainforest and two types of cacao agroforest in Sulawesi, Indonesia. We calculated three biodiversity measures (α and β diversity; percentage of species indicative of habitat conditions), built simple and multiple regression models among species groups (single groups, combinations of 2–11 groups, averaged relative diversity of all 12 groups), and related these to three measures of survey cost (absolute costs and two approaches correcting for different sampling intensities).3. Determination coefficients (R2 values) of diversity patterns between single study groups were generally low ( |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
3150082 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01932.x |
| Availability: |
https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/6811; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01932.x |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.AF8CF442 |
| Database: |
BASE |