Abstract Southeast Asia (SE Asia) is a known global hotspot of biodiversity and endemism,
yet the region is also one of the most biotically threatened. Ecosystems across the region are …

Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in recent decades. This large‐scale land‐use
change has had great ecological, economic, and social impacts on both the areas converted …

With the decreasing affordability of protecting large blocks of pristine tropical forests,
ecologists have staked their hopes on the management of human-modified landscapes …

Palm Oil is a highly successful flex crop that has become a development engine in
Southeast Asia and elsewhere. If the industry-led stakeholder initiative, the Roundtable on …

The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the
conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species …

Land-use change and intensification in tropical rainforest regions is generally linked to a
loss in species diversity that especially affects forest-dependent species. Indonesia is …

The challenges of bee research in Asia are unique and severe, reflecting different cultures,
landscapes, and faunas. Strategies and frameworks developed in North America or Europe …

There is a growing demand for incorporating social preferences in ecosystem service
assessments. To establish sustainable rural landscape management with alternative …

Forests in S outheast A sia are rapidly being logged and converted to oil palm. These
changes in land‐use are known to affect species diversity but consequences for the …

Focusing on Sumatra, a hotspot of tropical lowland rainforest transformation, we investigated
effects of the conversion of rainforests into rubber agroforests (“jungle rubber”), intensive …