A study provides insights into how energy flows in the food webs that connect soil- and canopy-dwelling organisms in tropical ecosystems with high biodiversity. When rainforest is converted to ...

Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity Date: February 21, 2024 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into ...

The researchers demonstrate that the conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way they function. The results were published in Nature.