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Effect of habitat transformation from grassland to Acacia mangium plantation on dung beetle assemblage in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Clean Development Mechanism afforestation often involves the creation of fast growing tree plantations on non-forest lands. To estimate the possible impacts of afforestation on the biodiversity of local species, we compared the diversity of dung beetles collected using baited pitfall traps placed in grasslands, plantations of Acacia mangium, and intact natural forests in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The species richness in plantations was higher than that on grasslands but lower than that in intact natural forests. Ordination analysis revealed that the structures of beetle assemblages in plantations were intermediate between intact natural forests and grasslands. However, the indicator species for the intact natural forests were never or rarely seen in the plantations. These results suggest that afforestation increases the local native diversity of dung beetles but that plantations are not readily colonized by the indicators of intact natural forests. Conversely, it is suggested that afforestation decreases the abundances of two grassland specialists.

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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Tetsuya Igarashi (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute: FFPRI) who provided us with data on the plantation characteristics, Kazuma Matsumoto (FFPRI’s Tohoku Res. Ctr.), Hiroshi Makihara (FFPRI), Kaoru Maeto (Kobe University), Kenichi Ozaki and Masato Ito (FFPRI’s Hokkaido Res. Ctr.) who advised us to conduct this study, Rob Johns (Atlantic Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service) who reviewed the manuscript, the late Herwint Simbolon (LIPI), Chandradewana Boer (Mulawarman University: UNMUL), Agustin and Agus (SWPF), the people of Sungai Wain Village, who helped us to conduct the field work, and two anonymous referees, who made comments that led to considerable improvement of the text. This study was conducted as part of a joint research project between LIPI, UNMUL, and FFPRI in order to evaluate the impact of CDM afforestation on biodiversity. This study was supported by a grant from Japan’s Ministry of the Environment (Environmental Research by National Research Institutes of Government Ministries and Agencies, 2004–2008), and from JSPS KAKENHI (Grant No. 26304028).

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  1. Masahiro Kon

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  2. Kenji Fukuyama

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  1. Kyushu Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kurokami 4-11-16, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-0862, Japan

    Akira Ueda

  2. Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor km 46, Cibinong, 16911, Indonesia

    Dhian Dwibadra & Woro A. Noerdjito

  3. Kutai Timur Agricultural High School, Jl. Soekarno-Hatta, Sangatta, Kutai Timur, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia

    Sugiarto

  4. School of Environment Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Hassaka-cho 2500, Hikone, 522-8533, Japan

    Masahiro Kon

  5. 5-21-6, Toyono-cho, Toyono-gun, Osaka, 563-0104, Japan

    Teruo Ochi

  6. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Matsunosato 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Masayoshi Takahashi & Kenji Fukuyama

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Table 4 Types of vegetation, location, and collection period for each study site
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A flight intercept pitfall trap used in the present study, containing a baited glass bottle with a perforated lid having six holes, each 5 mm in diameter

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Table 5 Number of beetles collected in each yaer at each site
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Ueda, A., Dwibadra, D., Noerdjito, W.A. et al. Effect of habitat transformation from grassland to Acacia mangium plantation on dung beetle assemblage in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. J Insect Conserv 19, 765–780 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-015-9798-x

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