Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES).
However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real …

Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

There is a weak evidence base supporting the effective management of riparian ecosystems
within tropical agriculture. Policies to protect riparian buffers—strips of non‐cultivated land …

Forested tropical landscapes around the world are being extensively logged and converted
to agriculture, with serious consequences for biodiversity and potentially ecosystem …

Governments and international organizations are promoting or drafting programs to
undertake Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) of hundreds of millions of hectares of …

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is among the fastest expanding crops, due to high global
demand for vegetable oils. Large areas of forest are converted into oil palm plantation to …

Optimizing the use of available soil management practices in oil palm plantations is crucial
to enhance long-term soil fertility and productivity. However, this needs a thorough …

Dragonfly assemblages (Odonata: comprising damselflies, Zygoptera; and dragonflies,
Anisoptera) in Southeast Asian rainforests are extremely diverse but increasingly threatened …