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Methane emissions from tank bromeliads in neotropical forests

Methane concentrations above tropical forests in the neotropics are high, according to space-borne observations. Flux measurements in the field suggest that tank bromeliads, herbaceous plants common throughout tropical forests, emit methane and may contribute to the tropical source.

Guntars O. Martinson
Florian A. Werner
Edzo Veldkamp
Research17 Oct 2010
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 3, P: 766-769
Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes

Small-scale farmers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to monocultures of oil palm and rubber to maximize income. Clough and colleagues demonstrate that this land-use change in Indonesia comes at a cost to a wide array of ecosystem functions and biodiversity.

Yann Clough
Vijesh V. Krishna
Stefan Scheu
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm

A full factorial experiment in a state-owned industrial oil palm plantation in Indonesia evaluates whether reduced management via reduced fertilization rates and mechanical weeding can decrease the negative impacts on ecosystem functions and biodiversity while maintaining profitability of the plantation.

Najeeb Al-Amin Iddris
Greta Formaglio
Marife D. Corre
ResearchOpen Access02 Mar 2023
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 6, P: 683-695
Response of tropical forest productivity to seasonal drought mediated by potassium and phosphorus availability

The resilience of tropical forest ecosystems to seasonal drought is linked to terrestrial potassium and phosphorus availability, according to a nutrient addition experiment in a moist forest in Uganda.

Raphael Manu
Najeeb Al-Amin Iddris
Edzo Veldkamp
ResearchOpen Access15 May 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 524-531
Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

Identifying economic and ecological trade-offs of land-use transitions is important to ensure sustainability. Here, Grass et al. find biodiversity-profit trade-offs in tropical land-use transitions in Sumatra, and show that targeted landscape planning is needed to increase land-use efficiency while ensuring socio-ecological sustainability.

Ingo Grass
Christoph Kubitza
Meike Wollni
ResearchOpen Access04 Mar 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-13
Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel

Palm oil biofuels are touted as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Meijide and colleagues use greenhouse gas measurements to update life cycle assessments of oil palm growth scenarios and show that despite the promise, emission savings do not meet sustainability standards.

Ana Meijide
Cristina de la Rua
Alexander Knohl
ResearchOpen Access27 Feb 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-11
Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity

Direct and cascading land-use effects alter biomass and species richness of taxa across trophic levels ranging from microorganisms to birds in a multi-taxon research initiative in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Andrew D. Barnes
Kara Allen
Ulrich Brose
Research28 Aug 2017
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1511-1519
Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics

Deforestation and reforestation cause dramatic changes to tropical ecosystems, including underlying soil properties and their corresponding ecosystem services. In this Review, the impacts of this land-use change on soils and their functions are discussed.

Edzo Veldkamp
Marcus Schmidt
Marife D. Corre
Reviews15 Sept 2020
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume: 1, P: 590-605
Nitrogen and potassium limit fine root growth in a humid Afrotropical forest

Raphael Manu
Edzo Veldkamp
Oliver van Straaten
ResearchOpen Access07 Jun 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland

Alley-cropping agroforestry enhances carbon sequestration compared to open cropland and open grassland, and improves soil biological habitat and erosion resistance relative to open cropland, based on measured ecosystem functions at five sites in Germany.

Edzo Veldkamp
Marcus Schmidt
Marife D. Corre
ResearchOpen Access24 Jan 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-10
Disentangling gross N₂O production and consumption in soil

Yuan Wen
Zhe Chen
Marife D. Corre
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-8

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