Does oil palm boost agricultural growth and reduce rural poverty, or is it a threat to rural
livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes? This paper introduces a Special Issue on this …

Integrated high-resolution maps of carbon stocks and biodiversity that identify areas of
potential co-benefits for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation can help …

Tropical peatlands are among the most carbon-dense ecosystems but land-use change has
led to the loss of large peatland areas, associated with substantial greenhouse gas …

Increasing global demand of vegetable oils and biofuels results in significant oil palm
expansion in southeastern Asia, predominately in Malaysia and Indonesia. The land …

Land cover transformations throughout the Amazon basin have significantly intensified in
recent decades due to increased human activity. Using a land change science approach …

Monitoring the expansion of commodity crops in the tropics is crucial to safeguard forests for
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is one such crop that is a …

Deforestation, the complete removal of an area's forest cover; and forest degradation, the
significant loss of forest structure, functions, and processes; are the result of the interaction …

The global tree cover has kept reducing in the last two decades, mainly in tropical forests,
despite the global efforts to conserve biodiversity and the ecosystem services that provides …

Since the early 2010s, small drones have become key tools for environmental research
around the globe. While critical voices have highlighted the threat of 'green …

While tropical forests are undergoing rapid transformation as a result of direct human
impacts, many deforested areas are reverting to forest through natural or human-assisted …