| Title | Assessing Biodiversity at Landscape Level in Northern Thailand and Sumatra (Indonesia): The Importance of Environmental Context. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Authors | Gillison, A.; Liswanti, N. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org; andy.gillison@austarnet.com.au |
| Journal | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment |
| Volume | 104 |
| Start Page | 75 |
| Pagination | 12 |
| Keywords | ASB, Biodiversity assessment, biodiversity indicators, gradsects, plant functional types. |
| Abstract | Most biodiversity assessment methods tend to sample isolated areas of land cover such as closed forest or local land use
mosaics. Contemporary methods of assessing biodiversity are briefly reviewed and focus on the relative roles of the Linnean
species and plant functional types (PFTs). Recent case studies from central Sumatra and northern Thailand indicate how the
range distributions of many plant and animal species and functional types frequently extend along regional gradients of light,
water and nutrient availability and corresponding land use intensity.We show that extending the sampling context to include a broader array of environmental determinants of biodiversity results in a more interpretable pattern of biodiversity. Our results
indicate sampling within a limited environmental context has the potential to generate highly truncated range distributions and
thus misleading information for land managers and for conservation. |
| URL | http://www.asb.cgiar.org/pdfwebdocs/AGEE_special_ANGillison_Assessing biodiversity.pdf |
