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 …

Diverse and larger tree islands promote native tree diversity in oil palm landscapes

GB Paterno, F Brambach, N Guerrero-Ramírez… - Science, 2024 - science.org
In monoculture-dominated landscapes, recovering biodiversity is a priority, but effective
restoration strategies have yet to be identified. In this study, we experimentally tested …

Evidence of time-lag in the provision of ecosystem services by tropical regenerating forests to coffee yields

AD González-Chaves, LG Carvalheiro… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Restoration of native tropical forests is crucial for protecting biodiversity and ecosystem
functions, such as carbon stock capacity. However, little is known about the contribution of …

Tree traits are a stronger predictor of bee traits and species richness than taxonomic diversity

A González‐Chaves, RC Borges… - Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits help to understand biological diversity and the mechanism by which
ecological communities are structured and how they respond to the environment. For …

Do ecological restoration projects undermine economic performance? A spatially explicit empirical study in loess plateau, China

S Li, J Xie, B Paudel - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Exploring the complex relationship between ecological restoration and economic
development is valuable for decision makers to formulate policy for sustainable …

[HTML][HTML] The Cool Farm Biodiversity metric: An evidence-based online tool to report and improve management of biodiversity at farm scale

LP Crowther, SH Luke, EC Arellano, CG McCormack… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Halting biodiversity loss and achieving food security are both aims of the United Nations
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, but there is complex interplay between them …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting crop production and restoration efforts: A case study with achiote trees as corridors

M Mazón, O Romero - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2025 - Elsevier
Productive restoration is intended to guarantee crop production whilst helping to conserve
biodiversity and other ecosystem services, but the recovery of these ecosystem components …

Planting diversity begets multifaceted tree diversity in oil palm landscapes

GB Paterno, F Brambach, N Guerrero-Ramírez… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Optimizing restoration outcomes is crucial for enhancing multifaceted diversity, resilience,
and ecosystem functioning in monoculture-dominated landscapes globally. Here, we …

An economic view on the costs and benefits of forest restoration

P Pacheco, C Beatty, J Patel - Restoring Forests and Trees for …, 2024 - books.google.com
We are facing an unprecedented scale of nature loss due in part to the continuous process
of land and forest degradation (IPBES 2018). The loss of natural ecosystems leads to …

Local biodiversity actions for sustainable development goal 15 (life on land) in China

G Zhou, R Zhang, Y Su, Y Lan, L Wang… - Sustainable … - Wiley Online Library
Achieving sustainable development goal (SDG) 15 (life on land) depends on local
conservation efforts. However, the lack of species data and inadequate ecological corridor …