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Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change

Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations

  • Provides an integrated scientific approach linking ecological, economic and social approaches at different scales
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Tropical rainforests and agroforests under global change: Ecological and socio-economic valuations — an introduction

    • Teja Tscharntke, Christoph Leuschner, Edzo Veldkamp, Heiko Faust, Edi Guhardja, Arifuddin Bidin
    Pages 1-11
  3. Agroforestry management in an ecological and socio-economic context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
  4. Part I Agroforestry management in an ecological and socioeconomic

    1. Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates

      • Yann Clough, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Marc-Oliver Adams, Alam Anshary, Nunik Ariyanti, Lydia Betz et al.
      Pages 15-71
    2. The potential of land-use systems for maintaining tropical forest butterfly diversity

      • Christian H. Schulze, Stefan Schneeweihs, Konrad Fiedler
      Pages 73-96
    3. Structure and management of cocoa agroforestry systems in Central Sulawesi across an intensification gradient

      • Jana Juhrbandt, Thomas Duwe, Jan Barkmann, Gerhard Gerold, Rainer Marggraf
      Pages 115-140
    4. Land tenure rights, village institutions, and rainforest conversion in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia)

      • Jan Barkmann, Günter Burkard, Heiko Faust, Michael Fremerey, Sebastian Koch, Agus Lanini
      Pages 141-160
    5. Rural income dynamics in post-crisis Indonesia: evidence from Central Sulawesi

      • Jan Priebe, Robert Rudolf, Julian Weisbrod, Stephan Klasen, Iman Sugema, Nunung Nuryartono
      Pages 161-176
    6. Demography, development, and deforestation at the rainforest margin in Indonesia

      • Stephan Klasen, Heiko Faust, Michael Grimm, Stefan Schwarze
      Pages 213-236
  5. Climate change effects on tropical rainforests and agroforests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
  6. Part II Climate change effects on tropical rainforests and

    1. Functional biodiversity and climate change along an altitudinal gradient in a tropical mountain rainforest

      • Jörg Bendix, Hermann Behling, Thorsten Peters, Michael Richter, Erwin Beck
      Pages 239-268
    2. Spatiotemporal trends of forest cover change in Southeast Asia

      • Stefan Erasmi, Muhammad Ardiansyah, Pavel Propastin, Alfredo Huete
      Pages 269-291
    3. Comparison of tree water use characteristics in reforestation and agroforestry stands across the tropics

      • Diego Dierick, Norbert Kunert, Michael Köhler, Luitgard Schwendenmann, Dirk Hölscher
      Pages 293-308
    4. Adaptation to climate change in Indonesia - livelihood strategies of rural households in the face of ENSO related droughts

      • Norbert B. Binternagel, Jana Juhrbandt, Sebastian Koch, Mangku Purnomo, Stefan Schwarze, Jan Barkmann et al.
      Pages 351-375
    5. Terrestrial herb communities of tropical submontane and tropical montane forests in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

      • Daniele Cicuzza, Michael Kessler, Ramadhanil Pitopang, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, S. Robbert Gradstein
      Pages 377-390

About this book

not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future development of natural rainforests as drought stress has been shown to a?ect tree growth and species composition in old-growth forests (Wright 1991, Walsh and Newbery 1999, Engelbrecht et al. 2007). A drought experiment conducted in a cacao agroforestry plantation showed that this plantation was surprisingly resilient to an induced drought of more than a year (Schwendenmann et al. 2009). However, droughts can have a strong impact on household incomes from agriculture, they strongly a?ect the vulnerability to poverty and thus have to be analyzed as important exogenous shocks to households, forcing them to adjust their behaviour and develop strategies to cope with these problems. The stability of rainforest margins is a critical factor in the protection of tropical rainforests (Tscharntke et al. 2007). At present, however, rainf- est margins in many parts of the tropics are far from stable, both in soc- economic and in ecological terms. For example, protected areas may attract, rather than repel, human settlement, which may be due to international donor investment in national conservation programs (Wittemeyer et al. 2008). An alternative hypothesis is that protected areas might be compromised if leakage takes place, that is, if impacts that would take place inside the restricted area are displaced to a nearby, undisturbed area (Ewers and Rodrigues 2008).

Reviews

From the reviews:

“Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change edited by Tscharntke and colleagues … highlighting several prominent ecological and social issues associated with agroforestry production systems. … Overall, I find this book to be a valuable compilation of the latest research on agroforestry, and would be a useful reference for researchers interested in this topic.” (Lian Pin Koh, Biotropica, 2010)

“This edited volume includes 24 chapters on ecology, bio-diversity, climate change, demography, and social sciences aspects of agroforestry and tropical forests. … provide a thoughtful evaluation of climate change impacts on tree water use, nutrient fluxes and hydrology. … of interest to ecologists, economists and agricultural scientists and … is accessible to all.” (Jaboury Ghazoul, Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. 12 (2), March, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • FG Agrarökologie, Univ. Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Teja Tscharntke

  • Albrecht-v.-Haller-Inst. für, Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Christoph Leuschner

  • Fak. Forstwissenschaften u. Waldökologie, Inst. Forstbotanik, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Edzo Veldkamp

  • Inst. Geographie, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Heiko Faust

  • Dept. Biology, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia

    Edi Guhardja

  • Dept. Forest Management, Tadulako University, Tondo Palu, Indonesia

    Arifuddin Bidin

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