Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Rising global demand for vegetable oil during the last few decades has led to a drastic
increase in the land area under oil palm. Especially in Southeast Asia, the oil palm boom …

Agriculture today places great strains on biodiversity, soils, water and the atmosphere, and
these strains will be exacerbated if current trends in population growth, meat and energy …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

We hypothesize that biological diversification across ecological, spatial, and temporal scales
maintains and regenerates the ecosystem services that provide critical inputs—such as …

Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and
the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary …

This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand
how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can …

In 2004, Navjot Sodhi and colleagues warned that logging and agricultural conversion of
Southeast Asia's forests were leading to a biodiversity disaster. We evaluate this prediction …

Our knowledge about land-use impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is mostly
limited to single trophic levels, leaving us uncertain about whole-community biodiversity …

Indonesia lost more tropical forest than all of Brazil in 2012, mainly driven by the rubber, oil
palm, and timber industries. Nonetheless, the effects of converting forest to oil palm and …