The growing global need for latex is driving rubber plantation (RP) expansion since the last
century, with> 2 Mha of cultivation area being established in the last decade. Southeast Asia …

Campo rupestre is a megadiverse vegetation mosaic dominating one of the world's
geologically oldest tropical mountains. The campo rupestre hosts nearly 15% of Brazil's …

Metabarcoding, the coupling of DNA-based species identification and high-throughput
sequencing, offers enormous promise for arthropod biodiversity studies but factors such as …

Metabarcoding potentially offers a rapid and cheap method of monitoring biodiversity, but
real-world applications are few. We investigated its utility in studying patterns of litter …

Soil changes matter for the global carbon (C) balance although belowground response to
land use change is slower and less obvious than that aboveground. Impacts of changes …

Full-sun cocoa farming is currently the most widespread cocoa cultivation system in humid
and sub-humid Côte d'Ivoire. Higher short-term yields from increasing surfaces under …

With 15–20% of Indonesian oil palms located, without a legal basis and permits, within the
forest zone ('Kawasan hutan'), international concerns regarding deforestation affect the …

A main question in restoration of degraded forests and forest landscapes recovering from
logging and fire is what to expect from natural regeneration through surviving propagules in …

Nudging the development trajectory of tropical landscapes towards sustainability requires a
global commitment and policies that take diverse contexts and forest transitions into account …

This paper sheds light on the state of our knowledge of relationships between plant diversity
and tropical forests ecosystem services. We systematically reviewed the empirical evidence …