Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes

DC Zemp, N Guerrero-Ramirez, F Brambach, K Darras… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, large knowledge gaps
persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated …

Enhancing tree performance through species mixing: Review of a quarter-century of TreeDivNet experiments reveals research gaps and practical insights

L Depauw, E De Lombaerde, E Dhiedt… - Current Forestry …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review International ambitions for massive afforestation and restoration
are high. To make these investments sustainable and resilient under future climate change …

Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations

A Wenzel, C Westphal, J Ballauff… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia has improved livelihoods in rural
communities, but comes at the cost of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation. Here, we …

Evaluation of ecological security and ecological maintenance based on pressure-state-response (PSR) model, case study: Fuzhou city, China

S Lai, J Sha, A Eladawy, X Li, J Wang… - … and Ecological Risk …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Since the modern industrial revolution, the speed of urbanization has accelerated, resulting
in a series of ecological environment problems. Fujian province will begin to implement the …

Ecohydrological impacts of oil palm expansion: a systematic review

AM Gómez, A Parra, TM Pavelsky, E Wise… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Global demand for vegetable oil and high oil palm yield have driven the rapid expansion of
oil palm plantations in tropical countries. The research literature widely recognizes the …

Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration

V Montoya-Sánchez, H Kreft, I Arimond… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing biodiversity in monoculture-dominated landscapes is a key sustainability
challenge that requires considering the spatial organization of ecological communities (beta …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying agroforestry characteristics for enhanced nutrient cycling potential in Brazil

JP Steinfeld, M Miatton, RE Creamer… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tropical soils are prone to rapid degradation if not managed well, and agroforestry systems
have the potential to restore degraded soils and support agricultural production together …

Tree diversity increases forest temperature buffering

F Schnabel, R Beugnon, B Yang, R Richter… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Global warming is increasing the frequency and intensity of climate extremes. Forests may
buffer such extreme events by creating their own microclimate below their canopy via …

Resistance and Resilience of Desert Riparian Communities to Extreme Droughts

A Fu, W Wang, W Li, Y Chen - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Changes in the resistance, recovery, and resilience of three desert riparian ecosystems to
extreme droughts and the influence of ecological characteristics on them from 2000 to 2020 …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in leaf area index by tropical forest transformation to plantations increase below-canopy surface temperatures

A Röll, I Marques, DN Ramadhani… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change affects life in tropical landscapes by increasing temperatures, among other
impacts. In addition, land transformation from forest to other land cover types typically …