Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes.

ABSTRACT: In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration¹, large knowledge gaps persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated tropical landscapes². Here, we present findings from a large-scale, 5-year ecosystem restoration experiment in an oil palm landscape enriched with 52 tree islands, encompassing assessments of ten indicators of biodiversity and 19 indicators of ecosystem functioning. Overall, indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as well as multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality, were higher in tree islands compared to conventionally managed oil palm. Larger tree islands led to larger gains in multidiversity through changes in vegetation structure. Furthermore, tree enrichment did not decrease land

SUBMITTER: Zemp DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10247383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature