ArticleNature communications2021
Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño.
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- A unifying framework for understanding how edge effects reshape the structure, composition and function of forests.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Soils and topography drive large and predictable shifts in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Tracking tree demography and forest dynamics at scale using remote sensing.The New phytologist · 2024Article
- Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Edge effects on tree architecture exacerbate biomass loss of fragmented Amazonian forests.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Increased impact of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on global vegetation under future warming environment.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Deforestation for oil palm increases microclimate suitability for the development of the disease vector Aedes albopictus.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
The past 40 years in Southeast Asia have seen about 50% of lowland rainforests converted to oil palm and other plantations, and much of the remaining forest heavily logged. Little is known about how fragmentation influences recovery and whether climate change will hamper restoration. Here, we use repeat airborne LiDAR surveys spanning the hot and dry 2015-16 El Niño Southern Oscillation event to measure canopy height growth across 3,300 ha of regenerating tropical forests spanning a logging intensity gradient in Malaysian Borneo. We show that the drought led to increased leaf shedding and branch fall. Short forest, regenerating after heavy logging, continued to grow despite higher evaporative demand, except when it was located close to oil palm plantations. Edge effects from the plantations extended over 300 metres into the forests. Forest growth on hilltops and slopes was particularly impacted by the combination of fragmentation and drought, but even riparian forests located within 40 m of oil palm plantations lost canopy height during the drought. Our results suggest that small patches of logged forest within plantation landscapes will be slow to recover, particularly as ENSO events are becoming more frequent.
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