Cross-boundary subsidy cascades from oil palm degrade distant tropical forests

• Main Authors: Luskin, Matthew Scott, Brashares, Justin S., Ickes, Kalan, Sun, I-Fang, Fletcher, Christine, Wright, S. Joseph, Potts, Matthew D.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology; Tropical Forests; Wild Boars
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81286; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Native species that forage in farmland may increase their local abundances thereby affecting adjacent ecosystems within their landscape. We used two decades of ecological data from a protected primary rainforest in Malaysia to illutrate how subsidies from neighboring oil palm plantations triggered p...