• A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system 

      Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; Kisel, Yael; Meyer, Katrin M.; Auliya, Mark; Barnes, Andrew D.; Corre, Marife D.ORCIDiD; Darras, Kevin; Faust, Heiko; Hess, Bastian; Klasen, Stephan; Knohl, AlexanderORCIDiD; Kreft, Holger; Meijide, AnaORCIDiD; Nurdiansyah, Fuad; Otten, Fenna; Pe'er, Guy; Steinebach, Stefanie; Tarigan, Suria; Tölle, Merja H.; Tscharntke, Teja; Wiegand, KerstinORCIDiD (Biological Reviews, 2016)
      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 to oil palm and their surroundings. However, ...
    • Diversity and composition of herbaceous angiosperms along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity. 

      Gómez-Díaz, Jorge Antonio; Krömer, Thorsten; Kreft, Holger; Gerold, Gerhard; Carvajal-Hernández, César Isidro; Heitkamp, Felix (PloS one, 2017)
      Terrestrial herbs are important elements of tropical forests; however, there is a lack of research on their diversity patterns and how they respond to different intensities of forest-use. The aim of this study was to analyze ...
    • Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion 

      Drescher, Jochen; Rembold, Katja; Allen, Kara; Beckschäfer, Philip; Buchori, Damayanti; Clough, Yann; Faust, Heiko; Fauzi, Anas M.; Gunawan, Dodo; Hertel, Dietrich; Irawan, Bambang; Jaya, I. Nengah S.; Klarner, Bernhard; Kleinn, Christoph; Knohl, AlexanderORCIDiD; Kotowska, Martyna M.; Krashevska, Valentyna; Krishna, Vijesh; Leuschner, Christoph; Lorenz, Wolfram; Meijide, AnaORCIDiD; Melati, Dian; Nomura, Miki; Pérez-Cruzado, César; Qaim, Matin; Siregar, Iskandar Z.; Steinebach, Stefanie; Tjoa, Aiyen; Tscharntke, Teja; Wick, Barbara; Wiegand, KerstinORCIDiD; Kreft, Holger; Scheu, Stefan (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016)
      Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary EFForTS project focuses on the ecological ...