The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

The breakdown of ecosystem functionality driven by deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot

D Faria, JC Morante-Filho, J Baumgarten… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pace of deforestation in tropical forests has achieved unprecedented rates, requiring
effective and achievable conservation mitigations that are also easily understood by society …

Snap happy: camera traps are an effective sampling tool when compared with alternative methods

OR Wearn, P Glover-Kapfer - Royal Society open …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Camera traps have become a ubiquitous tool in ecology and conservation. They are
routinely deployed in wildlife survey and monitoring work, and are being advocated as a tool …

Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate

RM Ewers, CDL Orme, WD Pearse, N Zulkifli… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments
compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems that provide refugia …

Framing pictures: A conceptual framework to identify and correct for biases in detection probability of camera traps enabling multi‐species comparison

TR Hofmeester, JPGM Cromsigt, J Odden… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining reliable species observations is of great importance in animal ecology and wildlife
conservation. An increasing number of studies use camera traps (CTs) to study wildlife …

Impact of Malaysian palm oil on sustainable development goals: co-benefits and trade-offs across mitigation strategies

K Mohd Hanafiah, AH Abd Mutalib, P Miard… - Sustainability …, 2022 - Springer
Palm oil (PO) is an important source of livelihood, but unsustainable practices and
widespread consumption may threaten human and planetary health. We reviewed 234 …

Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics

Y Malhi, T Riutta, OR Wearn, NJ Deere, SL Mitchell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Old-growth tropical forests are widely recognized as being immensely important for their
biodiversity and high biomass. Conversely, logged tropical forests are usually characterized …

[HTML][HTML] Global demand for natural resources eliminated more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans

M Voigt, SA Wich, M Ancrenaz, E Meijaard, N Abram… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly
biodiverse tropics [1, 2]. Although rapid developments in remote sensing technology have …

Richness, diversity, and factors influencing occupancy of mammal communities across human-modified landscapes in Colombia

V Boron, NJ Deere, P Xofis, A Link… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
As human-modified landscapes are increasing in the tropics, it becomes critical to
understand how they affect mammal communities to reconcile conservation and …

The impacts of tropical agriculture on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

JL Oakley, JE Bicknell - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underpins all food production and strengthens agricultural resilience to crop
failure. However, agricultural expansion is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, particularly …