Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest
| dc.contributor.author | Ashton, L. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Griffiths, H. M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Parr, C. L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Evans, T. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Didham, R. K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hasan, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Teh, Y. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tin, H. S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vairappan, C. S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eggleton, P. | |
| dc.contributor.institution | University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-28T11:30:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-28T11:30:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-01-11 | |
| dc.description | Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) with permission from the Maliau Basin Management Committee. We thank G. Reynolds, U. Jami, and L. Kruitbos for coordinating fieldwork; S. Both and U. Kritzler for help in establishing the experimental plots; R. Walsh for providing rainfall data; and A. Zanne and A. Cheesman for discussions on experimental design. We thank J. Nash from Bayer Southeast Asia Pte-Ltd, Singapore, for donating Premise 200SC and Agenda 10SC. We thank J. Rees, A. Tagliabue, M. Begon, R. Williams, W. Cheng, C. Dahlsjö, R. Kitching, and J. Barlow for comments on the manuscript. Finally, we thank all our field assistants: R. Binti Manber, A. Jupri, F. John, Y. Binti Suffian, E. Bin Esing, D. Bin Paul, Z. Bin Angau, A. Allbanah Bin Anchun, N. Angau, D. Ku Shamirah Binti Pg Bakar, E. Binti Nahun, R. Rusili, A. Bin Rantau, R. Bin Sahamin, A. Mastor, M. Adzim Bin Rahili, M. Azuan, H. Nasir, and N. Fazzli. Funding: This publication is a contribution from the UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium (NERC grant NE/L000016/1). Author contributions: C.L.P., H.M.G., L.A.A., P.E., and T.A.E. conceived and designed the experiment; C.L.P., P.E., and T.A.E. established the experimental plots; H.M.G., L.A.A., and P.E. collected the data; H.M.G., L.A.A., P.E., and R.K.D. analyzed the data; C.S.V., F.H., and H.S.T. carried out laboratory analysis; H.M.G. and L.A.A. led the writing of the manuscript with significant input from C.L.P., P.E., R.K.D., and Y.A.T. Competing interests: None declared. Data and materials availability: Data have been deposited in the NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (37). | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.format.extent | 4 | |
| dc.format.extent | 1952325 | |
| dc.identifier | 141990438 | |
| dc.identifier | 01337bd2-3a16-489a-b45c-60ac4520352a | |
| dc.identifier | 000455320600050 | |
| dc.identifier | 30630931 | |
| dc.identifier | 85059818519 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ashton, L A, Griffiths, H M, Parr, C L, Evans, T A, Didham, R K, Hasan, F, Teh, Y A, Tin, H S, Vairappan, C S & Eggleton, P 2019, 'Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest', Science, vol. 363, no. 6423, pp. 174-177. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau9565 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1126/science.aau9565 | |
| dc.identifier.iss | 6423 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0036-8075 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Mendeley: 4a04435b-99d9-37d7-a3a5-057ace6672a9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2164/11972 | |
| dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059818519&partnerID=8YFLogxK | en |
| dc.identifier.url | http://www.mendeley.com/research/termites-mitigate-effects-drought-tropical-rainforest-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.vol | 363 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Science | en |
| dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
| dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
| dc.subject | General | en |
| dc.subject | Supplementary Data | en |
| dc.subject | Supplementary information available in pdf file accessible from electronic version of article | en |
| dc.subject | Supplementary information inculdes: Materials and Methods, Figs S1-S9, tables S1-S5, graphical abstract and references. | en |
| dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
| dc.title | Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest | en |
| dc.type | Journal article | en |