Relationships between aboveground carbon stocks (AGC) and species richness (SR) at the land-use level.

<p>The dots’ colours represent land-use; old-growth forest (black), secondary forest (dark grey), shade plantation (light grey) and non-forested (white). Horizontal bars identify the 25^th and 75^th percentile for AGC, while the vertical ones identify the 95% confidence intervals obtained from sample-based rarefaction curves. Small case letters indicate the grouping of land-uses by SR, with <i>a</i> representing the richest and <i>c</i> the poorest. The AGC was significantly higher in old-growth forest than in any other land-use, followed by shade plantation, secondary forest and non-forested land-uses, which was only not significantly smaller from secondary forest.