All Outputs (4)

Maintaining understory vegetation in oil palm plantations supports higher assassin bug numbers (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Understory vegetation supports more abundant and diverse butterfly communities in oil palm plantations (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: The cultivation of oil palm, from which palm oil, the world’s most widely traded vegetable oil, is processed, has had marked effects on ecosystems and native species across the tropics. While declines in biodiversity due to conversion t... Read More about Understory vegetation supports more abundant and diverse butterfly communities in oil palm plantations.

Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations (2023)
Journal Article

Oil palm is one of Southeast Asia's most common crops, and its expansion has caused substantial modification of natural habitats and put increasing pressure on biodiversity. Rising global demand for vegetable oil, coupled with oil palm's high yield p... Read More about Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations.

Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades (2023)
Journal Article

Entomology is key to understanding terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems at a time of unprecedented anthropogenic environmental change and offers substantial untapped potential to benefit humanity in a variety of ways, from improving agricultural pra... Read More about Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades.