Land use conversion from peat swamp forest to oil palm agriculture greatly modifies microclimate and soil conditions

Alley-cropping system increases vegetation heterogeneity and moderates extreme microclimates in oil palm plantations

(2019) Mohamad Ashraf et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Decoupling forest characteristics and background conditions to explain urban-rural variations of multiple microclimate regulation from urban trees

(2018) Wenjie Wang et al.   PeerJ

An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor

(2017) Thomas Gumbricht et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluating the surface temperature and vegetation index ( Ts / VI ) method for estimating surface soil moisture in heterogeneous regions

(2017) Zhaofei Liu et al.   HYDROLOGY RESEARCH

The global palm oil sector must change to save biodiversity and improve food security in the tropics

(2017) Badrul Azhar et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Microclimate benefits that different street tree species provide to sidewalk pedestrians relate to differences in Plant Area Index

(2017) Ruzana Sanusi et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Switching from monoculture to polyculture farming benefits birds in oil palm production landscapes: Evidence from mist netting data

(2017) Muhammad S. Yahya et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Logged peat swamp forest supports greater macrofungal biodiversity than large-scale oil palm plantations and smallholdings

(2017) Siti Noor Shuhada et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating the surface temperature and vegetation index ( Ts / VI ) method for estimating surface soil moisture in heterogeneous regions

(2017) Zhaofei Liu et al.   Hydrology Research

Effects of polyculture and monoculture farming in oil palm smallholdings on tropical fruit-feeding butterfly diversity

(2016) Siti Asmah et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Effects of land-use change on vascular epiphyte diversity in Sumatra (Indonesia)

(2016) Tim Böhnert et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Habitat occupancy patterns and activity rate of native mammals in tropical fragmented peat swamp reserves in Peninsular Malaysia

(2016) Selvadurai Sasidhran et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Street Orientation and Side of the Street Greatly Influence the Microclimatic Benefits Street Trees Can Provide in Summer

(2016) Ruzana Sanusi et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

(2016) Jochen Drescher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Depauperate Avifauna in Tropical Peat Swamp Forests Following Logging and Conversion to Oil Palm Agriculture: Evidence from Mist-netting Data

(2016) Ainil Hawa et al.   WETLANDS

Impacts of land use, restoration, and climate change on tropical peat carbon stocks in the twenty-first century: implications for climate mitigation

(2016) Matthew Warren et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate

(2015) Stephen R. Hardwick et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Tropical trees in a wind-exposed island ecosystem: height-diameter allometry and size at onset of maturity

(2015) Sean C. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Promoting landscape heterogeneity to improve the biodiversity benefits of certified palm oil production: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

(2015) Badrul Azhar et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Global dependence of field-observed leaf area index in woody species on climate: a systematic review

(2013) Atsuhiro Iio et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The influence of agricultural system, stand structural complexity and landscape context on foraging birds in oil palm landscapes

(2013) Badrul Azhar et al.   IBIS

Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity through the oil palm lifecycle

(2011) Matthew Scott Luskin et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests

(2011) Mary Rose C. Posa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Upslope Range Shifts of Andean Dung Beetles in Response to Deforestation: Compounding and Confounding Effects of Microclimatic Change

(2011) Trond H. Larsen   BIOTROPICA

The conservation value of oil palm plantation estates, smallholdings and logged peat swamp forest for birds

(2011) Badrul Azhar et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Two decades of destruction in Southeast Asia's peat swamp forests

(2011) Jukka Miettinen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2010

(2011) JUKKA MIETTINEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Analysing the influence of different street vegetation on traffic-induced particle dispersion using microscale simulations

(2011) Annett Wania et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

(2010) SUSAN E. PAGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The cooling efficiency of urban landscape strategies in a hot dry climate

(2009) Limor Shashua-Bar et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in Indo-Malayan peat swamp forests

(2008) Catherine M. Yule   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The impact of forest conversion to oil palm on arthropod abundance and biomass in Sabah, Malaysia

(2008) Edgar C. Turner et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Peat–water interrelationships in a tropical peatland ecosystem in Southeast Asia

(2007) J.H.M. Wösten et al.   CATENA