This literature review identifies the impacts of different renewable energy pathways on
ecosystems and biodiversity, and the implications of these impacts for transitioning to a …

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 …

Most tropical forests outside protected areas have been or will be selectively logged so it is
essential to maximize the conservation values of partially harvested areas. Here we …

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly expanding equatorial crops. The two largest oil
palm‐producing countries—Indonesia and Malaysia—are located in Southeast Asia, a …

Southeast Asia experiences one of the highest rates of deforestation in the tropics due to
agricultural expansion, logging, habitat fragmentation and urbanization, which are expected …

The paper presents data on the use of simple crown traps for studying the insect fauna. The
crown trap is a five-litre plastic container with a window cut out on one side of it at a distance …

The carbon storage and conservation value of old-growth tropical forests is clear, but the
value of logged forest is less certain. Here we analyse> 100,000 observations of individuals …

First generation biofuels provide a number of ecosystem services (eg, fuel, climate
regulation) but they also compromise other ecosystem services (eg, food, freshwater …

Assessing the effects of logging on different aspects of biodiversity and general ecosystem
properties is of prime importance if the few remaining areas of intact tropical forest are to be …

Summary 1 Secondary forests growing on cleared lands and tree plantations are becoming
increasingly widespread land‐uses in the tropics. Previous studies are divided on the …