Holger Kreft

TL;DR: It is argued that the reversal of the SIR for alien species is driven by an increase in island invasibility due to reduced diversity and increased ecological naiveté of native biota on the more remote islands.

TL;DR: Findings from TreeDivNet indicate that tree diversity experiments are extending BEF research across systems and scales, complementing previous BEF work in grasslands by providing opportunities to use remote sensing and spectral approaches to study BEF dynamics, integrate belowground and aboveground approaches, and trace the consequences of tree physiology for ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: The Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT) as discussed by the authors is a taxonomic database of land plants and checklists with functional traits, phylogenetic information, and region-level geographic, environmental and socio-economic data.

TL;DR: It is argued that addressing data gaps in soil biodiversity will ultimately benefit human well-being and provide an impetus for increased policy-relevant research on soil biodiversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive assessment of the varied effects of forest conversion and land-use intensification on vascular plant diversity across the four dominant land use systems in the lowlands of Sumatra: rainforest, jungle rubber agroforest, rubber plantations, and oil palm plantations.