Publications by authors named "O A Rojas-Castillo"
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- * A comprehensive review of 29 studies showed that oil palm plantations without riparian buffers had significantly fewer stream taxa compared to both primary and disturbed forests, while buffers only partially mitigated these effects.
- * The research found that while overall abundance of species didn't significantly differ across land uses due to generalist species thriving, the specific composition and richness of aquatic communities were notably altered by the conversion from forest to oil palm.
The global area cultivated with oil palm has doubled in the past two decades, causing deforestation, land-use change, freshwater pollution, and species loss in tropical ecosystems worldwide. Despite the palm-oil industry been linked to severe deterioration of freshwater ecosystems, most studies have focused on terrestrial environments, while freshwaters have been significantly less studied. We evaluated these impacts by contrasting freshwater macroinvertebrate communities and habitat conditions in 19 streams from primary forests (7), grazing lands (6), and oil palm plantations (6).
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