Overcoming confusion and stigma in habitat fragmentation research

F Riva, N Koper, L Fahrig - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic habitat loss is widely recognized as a primary environmental concern. By
contrast, debates on the effects of habitat fragmentation persist. To facilitate overcoming …

Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations

A Wenzel, C Westphal, J Ballauff… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia has improved livelihoods in rural
communities, but comes at the cost of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation. Here, we …

Tracking shifts in forest structural complexity through space and time in human‐modified tropical landscapes

A Rosen, F Jörg Fischer, DA Coomes, TD Jackson… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat structural complexity is an emergent property of ecosystems that directly shapes their
biodiversity, functioning and resilience to disturbance. Yet despite its importance, we …

Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment

LR Topanotti, JM Fuchs, M Albert, J Schick… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Enriching tree species–poor and less productive forests by introducing economically
valuable species is a strategy proposed for achieving multipurpose forest management …

Moving beyond simplistic representations of land use in conservation

T Kuemmerle - Conservation Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Land use is both a major cause of the biodiversity crises and a potential solution to it.
Decisions about land use are made in complex social–ecological systems, yet conservation …

[HTML][HTML] An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world's tropical dry woodlands

M Pratzer, P Meyfroidt, M Antongiovanni… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major
opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use …

Exploring new methods for assessing landscape ecological risk in key basin

S Li, B Tu, Z Zhang, L Wang, Z Zhang, X Che… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Scientific assessment of landscape ecological risk (LER) aims to optimize land use patterns
and mitigate regional ecological hazards. However, accurate LER assessment requires the …

Formaldehyde-free high-strength low-density wood biocomposites via corrugation and self-bonding of wooden cell

Y Yang, X Yue, C Li, ZM El-Bahy, S Melhi… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2024 - Springer
In alignment with global sustainable development strategies and the growing demand for
green manufacturing practices in engineered wood production, an innovative method has …

Ecosystem restoration along the “pattern-process-service-sustainability” path for achieving land degradation neutrality

C Yin, W Zhao, P Pereira - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025 - Elsevier
Ecosystem restoration is critical in attaining land degradation neutrality (LDN) by fostering
synergistic relationships between land use patterns, ecological processes, ecosystem …

Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration

V Montoya-Sánchez, H Kreft, I Arimond… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing biodiversity in monoculture-dominated landscapes is a key sustainability
challenge that requires considering the spatial organization of ecological communities (beta …