Land Use Change Effects on Tropical Forest Ecosystem
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2189
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine ecology and restoration; eDNA metabarcoding; DNA barcode; forest engineering and biotechnology
Interests: mangrove ecology; forest carbon dynamics; greenhouse gas inventory; climate change mitigation and adaptation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic disturbance, tropical forests are being disturbed and converted to non-forest land uses. Functional diversity and ecosystem processes have undergone considerable alterations as a result, with repercussions for local, regional, and global biogeochemical cycles. Researchers have been working to understand how anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic interventions affect biodiversity, ecosystem structure, or biogeochemistry since the advent of land-use change, but it has only been more recently that they have started to investigate the additive or synergistic effects of land-use change and biodiversity loss on tropical ecosystem function. Deforestation and fragmentation, over-exploitation, invasive species and climate change are the main drivers of tropical forest biodiversity loss. Tropical deforestation has had great impacts on the global carbon cycle. Scientists came to the conclusion that anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) have substantial impacts on the loss of tropical forests, leading to a decrease of the forest carbon sink.
This Special Issue aims to collect relevant scientific contributions on the impacts of land use change and functional biodiversity loss on tropical ecosystem functions. In order to advance our general and theoretical understanding of how tropical land use change and functional biodiversity loss affect ecological processes and biogeochemical cycling, we want to find common trends and cross-cutting themes among various ecosystems and geographical locations. This could include research using remote sensing or field measurements using experimental, observational, or modeling techniques. Studies on direct and indirect influences of recent or past human disturbances on tropical ecosystems are invited. This includes direct human interventions such as selective logging, land clearing for farming and forestry, as well as indirect interventions like climate change, modifications on the troposphere’s chemistry (including atmospheric depositions), the introduction of invasive species, or changes to disturbance patterns. Studies that integrate biodiversity and ecosystem processes in order to understand how changes to biotic communities affect ecosystem functions are of particular interest.
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Basyuni
Dr. Virni B. Arifanti
Dr. Frida Sidik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land use and land cover change
- carbon stock
- biodiversity
- forest structure and composition
- tropical forests
- forest disturbance
- human disturbance
- tropical biodiversity
- tropical ecosystems
