Hendrien Beukema

TL;DR: Reducing deforestation is likely to represent a more effective climate-change mitigation strategy than converting forest for biofuel production, and it may help nations meet their international commitments to reduce biodiversity loss.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the diversity in the Indonesian jungle rubber agroforestry system compared to that in primary forest and rubber plantations by integrating new and existing data from a lowland rain forest area in Sumatra.

TL;DR: In this article, a tropical lowland area in Sumatra was analyzed for a total of 51 standard 0.16 ha plots in primary forest, rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) agroforests and rubber plantations and the average plot level species richness (11 species) was not significantly different amongst the three land use types.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impact of the spread of oil-palm plantations on greenhouse gas emission and biodiversity and found that plantations supported species-poor communities containing few forest species.

TL;DR: Investigation showed that artificial drainage changed the original mesotrophic conditions into eutrophic circumstances, which are much more favourable for this species, and the increase of a rare plant species like Ranunculus hederaceus does not always indicate the well-being of a nature reserve.