Monitoring of arboreal arthropod communities across a land-use gradient in Sumatra, Indonesia

Within the framework of the EFForTS project, I study arthropod community change along an agricultural transformation gradient from lowland rainforest to smallholder plantations of rubber and oil palm in Sumatra, Indonesia. In close collaboration with counterparts and students at Bogor Agricultural University and University of Jambi, we identify the collected specimen primarily by morphology, employing classic taxonomy. We also use community phylogenetic methods to understand how local land-use change induces trait shifts, and stable isotopes to quantify trophic position change of the affected arthropod communities.