Human land-use changes represent the most important drivers of biodiversity loss, and
amphibians and reptiles represent the most threatened groups of vertebrates globally …

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly increasing crops. We assess its contribution to
tropical deforestation and review its biodiversity value. Oil palm has replaced large areas of …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Despite centuries of urbanization and industrialization, around half of the world's people still
live as subsis-tence or small-scale farmers. The pro-duction of agricultural export …

The growing demand for biofuels is promoting the expansion of a number of agricultural
commodities, including oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). Oil‐palm plantations cover over 13 …

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 …

Although insects are crucial for maintaining ecosystem function, our understanding of their
overall response to human activity remains limited. This is no less true of dung-burying …

The recent shift in research attention by amphibian biologists towards the causes of
“enigmatic” population declines appears paradoxical given the almost unanimous …

As tropical regions are converted to agriculture, conservation of biodiversity will depend not
only on the maintenance of protected forest areas, but also on the scope for conservation …

Deforestation and degradation of tropical old-growth forests has the potential to cause
catastrophic species extinctions. In this review, we assess whether regenerating secondary …