1/5 #TropiCon20 Hi all! Riparian buffers are strips of forest retained around rivers in agricultural landscapes to protect water quality. With a large-scale microclimatic datalogger campaign in Borneo, we demonstrate how they act as cool, humid refugia in oil palm @mattstruebig
1/5 #TropiCon20 Hi all! Riparian buffers are strips of forest retained around rivers in agricultural landscapes to protect water quality. With a large-scale microclimatic datalogger campaign in Borneo, we demonstrate how they act as cool, humid refugia in oil palm @mattstruebig
1/5 #TropiCon20 Hi all! Riparian buffers are strips of forest retained around rivers in agricultural landscapes to protect water quality. With a large-scale microclimatic datalogger campaign in Borneo, we demonstrate how they act as cool, humid refugia in oil palm @mattstruebig
2/5 #TropiCon20 By combining our microclimate data with those generated by an airborne LiDAR scan, we show that increased vegetation complexity, topographic sheltering and increased canopy height drive cool, wet conditions in these landscapes. @Tomswinfield
2/5 #TropiCon20 By combining our microclimate data with those generated by an airborne LiDAR scan, we show that increased vegetation complexity, topographic sheltering and increased canopy height drive cool, wet conditions in these landscapes. @Tomswinfield
2/5 #TropiCon20 By combining our microclimate data with those generated by an airborne LiDAR scan, we show that increased vegetation complexity, topographic sheltering and increased canopy height drive cool, wet conditions in these landscapes. @Tomswinfield
2/5 #TropiCon20 By combining our microclimate data with those generated by an airborne LiDAR scan, we show that increased vegetation complexity, topographic sheltering and increased canopy height drive cool, wet conditions in these landscapes. @Tomswinfield
2/5 #TropiCon20 By combining our microclimate data with those generated by an airborne LiDAR scan, we show that increased vegetation complexity, topographic sheltering and increased canopy height drive cool, wet conditions in these landscapes. @Tomswinfield
3/5 #TropiCon20 The width of riparian buffers was also vital for protecting microclimate, with riparian buffer conditions ~80-100m from the oil palm edge indistinguishable from continuous forest controls @rossiterlab @HMTF_LOMBOK @SarahHLuke 📸 @solomilne
3/5 #TropiCon20 The width of riparian buffers was also vital for protecting microclimate, with riparian buffer conditions ~80-100m from the oil palm edge indistinguishable from continuous forest controls @rossiterlab @HMTF_LOMBOK @SarahHLuke @solomilne
3/5 #TropiCon20 The width of riparian buffers was also vital for protecting microclimate, with riparian buffer conditions ~80-100m from the oil palm edge indistinguishable from continuous forest controls @rossiterlab @HMTF_LOMBOK @SarahHLuke @solomilne
4/5 #TropiCon20 But how does all this affect biodiversity? Using a few plastic bottles and a bucket of human faeces (high-tech 💩) we show that dung beetle diversity is synergistically negatively impacted by narrower and hotter/drier buffers! @EleSlade 📸 @RobKnell1
4/5 #TropiCon20 But how does all this affect biodiversity? Using a few plastic bottles and a bucket of human faeces (high-tech ) we show that dung beetle diversity is synergistically negatively impacted by narrower and hotter/drier buffers! @EleSlade @RobKnell1
4/5 #TropiCon20 But how does all this affect biodiversity? Using a few plastic bottles and a bucket of human faeces (high-tech ) we show that dung beetle diversity is synergistically negatively impacted by narrower and hotter/drier buffers! @EleSlade @RobKnell1
5/5 #TropiCon20 We lend our voices to those calling for wider riparian buffers (~80m) and the restoration of degraded buffers to increase the environmental sustainability of oil palm landscapes. Our paper will be out any day now, follow for more! @JAppliedEcology 📸 @CIFOR
An enormous thank-you to all the additional people/institutions who made this work possible - @OwenTLewis @tommaso_jucker Herry Heroin, Arthur Chung, Charles Vairappan, David Coomes, @London_NERC_DTP @Liyuen93 @JonathanParrett @red_termite and the research assistants at @SEARRP
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