Martyna M. Kotowska

TL;DR: Landscape compositions that can mitigate trade-offs under optimal land-use allocation but also show that intensive monocultures always lead to higher profits are identified, suggesting that targeted landscape planning is needed to increase land- use efficiency while ensuring socio-ecological sustainability.

TL;DR: The data confirm that rainforest transformation and land use intensification lead to substantial losses in biodiversity and related ecosystem functions, such as decreased above- and below-ground carbon stocks.

TL;DR: Using the most comprehensive quantification of land-use change and associated bundles of ecosystem functions, services and economic benefits to date, it is shown that Indonesian smallholders predominantly choose farm portfolios with high economic productivity but low ecological value.

TL;DR: Conversion of natural lowland forest into different agricultural systems leads to a strong reduction not only in the biomass carbon pool but also in carbon sequestration as carbon residence time (i.e. biomass-C:NPP-C).

TL;DR: 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, revealing that biotic interactions on broad taxonomic scales influence the ecological outcome of anthropogenic perturbations to natural ecosystems.