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Title: Movement of moths through riparian reserves within oil palm plantations
Authors: Gray, Ross E. J.
Slade, Eleanor M.
Chung, Arthur Y. C.
Lewis, Owen T.
Keywords: Science::Biological sciences::Ecology
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Gray, R. E. J., Slade, E. M., Chung, A. Y. C., & Lewis, O. T. (2019). Movement of moths through riparian reserves within oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2(68). doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00068
Journal: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 
Abstract: Tropical forests are becoming increasingly fragmented through conversion to agriculture, with negative consequences for biodiversity. Movement of individuals among the remaining fragments is critical to allow populations of forest-dependent taxa to persist. In SE Asia, conversion of forests to oil palm plantations is a particular threat. Many oil palm dominated landscapes retain forested riparian reserves along streams and rivers, but the extent to which these riparian reserves are used for movement, relative to the oil palm matrix, is poorly understood. We used mark-release-recapture methods to investigate the movement of five moth taxa in riparian reserves connected to a continuous forest area within oil palm matrix in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Moths were recaptured on average 68 m from the release point, and the mean time to recapture was between 2 and 3 days. Moths showed a significant tendency to move within forested riparian reserves than into adjacent oil palm. When moving within riparian reserves moths also showed a tendency to orient their movement away from the continuous forest into the riparian reserve rather than toward continuous forest or into oil palm. Overall, our results show a role for riparian reserves as movement corridors through oil palm plantations for some invertebrate species, strengthening the case for their retention and re-establishment.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145948
ISSN: 2624-893X
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00068
Schools: Asian School of the Environment 
Rights: © 2019 Gray, Slade, Chung and Lewis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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