Aboveground Biodiversity Assessment Working Group Summary Report 1996-1999: Impact of Different Land Uses on Biodiversity and Social Indicators, August 2000

ABSTRACT:
This report assesses the impact of various land uses on biodiversity using a series of land-use gradients from ASB sites in the western Amazon Basin, Thailand, and Indonesia. The report additionally explores the dynamic linkages among biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and productivity for human needs. For the first time, the combined use of plant taxonomic and plant functional attributes (PFAs) has shown marked improvement in the capacity to predict biophysical response, and thus biodiversity, to land use impact.

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ASB Biodiversity Assessment Working Group Summary Report and Annexes
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• PARTS A-B:
  Executive Summary & Aboveground Ecoregional Benchmark Surveys
  
  
• PARTS C:
  Intensive Biodiversity Baseline Study in Jambi, Indonesia
  
  1. Summary and Overview
  2. Rapid Vegetation Survey
  3. Vegetation and Land Use Types
  4. Birds
  5. Mammals
  6. Canopy Insects: Canopy arthropods and butterfly survey - preliminary report
  7. Soil Macrofauna: Ground-dwelling ants, termites, other macroarthropods and earthworms
  8. Terrestrial Insects: Termites
  9. Land Snails
  10. Soil Properties and Carbon Stocks
  11. Preliminary Synthesis: Summary of plant-based indicators of biodiversity and soil nutrient availability
  
  
• ANNEXES:
  Annex I: Habitat Profiles Under Different Land Use Types
  Annex II: Comparative Correlations of Plant Species, Functional Types (Modi), and Species/Modi with Aboveground Carbon and 3 Animal Taxa
  Annex III: Benchmark Site Data
  Annex IV: List of Acronyms
  Annex V: List of Maps
  

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