Outputs (17)

Trialling floral-baited traps to survey flower-visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study (2024)
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Popkin, M., Harianja, M. F., Luke, S. H., Setyawan, Y. P., Naim, M., Caliman, J., & Turner, E. C. (2024). Trialling floral-baited traps to survey flower-visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13525

Monitoring pollinating arthropods in crop systems can provide important information about pollinator populations and potential yield but can be hampered by accessibility to flowers in some systems, or by the timing of flowering and pollinator visits.... Read More about Trialling floral-baited traps to survey flower-visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study.

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices (2024)
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Reiss-Woolever, V., Wakhid, W., Ikhsan, M., Caliman, J.-P., Naim, M., Azmi, E., Shufiyan, S., Howes, J., Azmi, R., Lim, Y. Y., Abdul Jan, S. Z., Barrock, I., Azhar, B., Drewer, J., Ward, C., Jones, J., Luke, S., Turner, E., Hidayat, P., & Buchori, D. (in press). Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices. PLoS ONE,

FreshLanDiv: A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land Uses (2024)
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Shen, M., van Klink, R., Sagouis, A., Petsch, D. K., Abong'o, D. A., Alahuhta, J., Al‐Shami, S. A., Armendáriz, L. C., Bae, M., Begot, T. O., Belliard, J., Benstead, J. P., Bomfim, F. F., Bredenhand, E., Budnick, W. R., Callisto, M., Calvão, L. B., Camacho‐Rozo, C. P., Cañedo‐Argüelles, M., Carvalho, F. G., …Chase, J. M. (2024). FreshLanDiv: A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land Uses. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(12), Article e13917. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13917

Motivation
Freshwater ecosystems have been heavily impacted by land-use changes, but data syntheses on these impacts are still limited. Here, we compiled a global database encompassing 241 studies with species abundance data (from multiple biologica... Read More about FreshLanDiv: A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land Uses.

Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate (2024)
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Ewers, R. M., Orme, C. D. L., Pearse, W. D., Zulkifli, N., Yvon-Durocher, G., Yusah, K. M., Yoh, N., Yeo, D. C. J., Wong, A., Williamson, J., Wilkinson, C. L., Wiederkehr, F., Webber, B. L., Wearn, O. R., Wai, L., Vollans, M., Twining, J. P., Turner, E. C., Tobias, J. A., Thorley, J., …Banks-Leite, C. (2024). Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature, 631, 808-813. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07657-w

Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems1 that provide refugia for large amounts of biodiversity2,3, so we cannot afford to underestimate... Read More about Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate.

Restoring understory and riparian areas in oil palm plantations does not increase greenhouse gas fluxes (2024)
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Drewer, J., Tarigan, R. S., Banin, L. F., White, S., Raine, E., Luke, S. H., Turner, E. C., Skiba, U., Cowan, N. J., Dewi, J. P., Advento, A. D., Aryawan, A. A. K., Caliman, J.-P., & Pujianto, P. (2024). Restoring understory and riparian areas in oil palm plantations does not increase greenhouse gas fluxes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7, Article 1324475. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1324475

Oil palm (OP) plantations have replaced large areas of forest in the tropical landscape of Southeast Asia and are major emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs). To move towards more environmentally friendly plantation management, a hopeful approach is to... Read More about Restoring understory and riparian areas in oil palm plantations does not increase greenhouse gas fluxes.

The Cool Farm Biodiversity metric: an evidence-based online tool to report and improve management of biodiversity at farm scale (2024)
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Crowther, L. P., Luke, S. H., Arellano, E. C., McCormack, C. G., Ferreira, V., Hillier, J., Heathcoate, R., Kloen, H., Oliveira-Reboucas, P., Oliveira da Silva, F., Munoz-Saez, A., Rojas-Arevalo, N., Zielonka, N., & Dicks, L. V. (2024). The Cool Farm Biodiversity metric: an evidence-based online tool to report and improve management of biodiversity at farm scale. Ecological Indicators, 161, Article 111897

Halting biodiversity loss and achieving food security are both aims of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, but there is complex interplay between them. Agriculture drives biodiversity loss, but biodiversity provides benefits t... Read More about The Cool Farm Biodiversity metric: an evidence-based online tool to report and improve management of biodiversity at farm scale.

How do management decisions impact butterfly assemblages in smallholding oil palm plantations in Peninsular Malaysia? (2024)
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Harianja, M. F., Stone, J., Mamat, W. Z. W., Hadi, M. A., Luke, S. H., Azhar, B., & Turner, E. C. (2024). How do management decisions impact butterfly assemblages in smallholding oil palm plantations in Peninsular Malaysia?. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61(4), 759-772. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14615

In the world's leading palm oil-producing countries (Indonesia and Malaysia), smallholders make up about 40 per cent of total oil palm plantation area. Management in smallholdings can be highly variable, ranging from intensive monoculture to polycult... Read More about How do management decisions impact butterfly assemblages in smallholding oil palm plantations in Peninsular Malaysia?.

The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia (2024)
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Harianja, M. F., Turner, E. C., Barclay, H., Chey, V. K., Aldridge, D. C., Foster, W. A., & Luke, S. H. (2024). The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia. Freshwater Biology, 69(4), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14229

Land‐use change and agricultural expansion have caused marked biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia, but impacts on freshwater communities have been very little studied. Semi‐aquatic bugs are abundant in streams, provide prey for many other animals, an... Read More about The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia.

The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm (2024)
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Harianja, M. F., Luke, S. H., Barclay, H., Chey, V. K., Aldridge, D. C., Foster, W. A., & Turner, E. C. (2024). The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, Article 1203513. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1203513

Despite the diverse ecosystem services that forested stream margins (“riparian buffer strips”) can provide in agricultural landscapes, understanding of their biodiversity impacts in the tropics is lacking. Stream invertebrates support many ecosystem... Read More about The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm.

Maintaining understory vegetation in oil palm plantations supports higher assassin bug numbers (2023)
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Stone, J., Advento, A. D., Pashkevich, M. D., Aryawan, A. A. K., Caliman, J., Hood, A. S. C., Foster, W. A., Naim, M., Pujianto, P., Purnomo, D., Suhardi, S., Tarigan, R. S., Rambe, T. D. S., Widodo, R. H., Luke, S. H., Snaddon, J. L., & Turner, E. C. (2023). Maintaining understory vegetation in oil palm plantations supports higher assassin bug numbers. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(4), Article e12293. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12293

The expansion of oil palm agriculture across Southeast Asia has caused significant biodiversity losses, with the reduction in habitat heterogeneity that accompanies the conversion of forest to oil palm being a major contributing factor. However, owin... Read More about Maintaining understory vegetation in oil palm plantations supports higher assassin bug numbers.