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Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests by Edwards, David P., Tobias, Joseph A., Sheil, Douglas, Meijaard, Erik, Laurance, William F.

“…•Logged tropical forests retain most biodiversity and ecosystem functions.•Carbon, climatic, and soil-hydrological services are reduced but not dramatically…”
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High readership on academic social platforms could poorly reflect conservation interest by Meijaard, Erik, Moqanaki, Ehsan

“…Social media are being used increasingly by the science community to share research output with a wide audience and to seek feedback. They are also used as…”
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The Moral Minefield of Ethical Oil Palm and Sustainable Development by Meijaard, Erik, Sheil, Douglas

“…The environmental impacts of the palm oil industry are widely recognised. Unsurprisingly, many people, including many conservation pundits, consider oil palm a…”
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Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo by Gaveau, David L. A., Sheil, Douglas, Husnayaen, Salim, Mohammad A., Arjasakusuma, Sanjiwana, Ancrenaz, Marc, Pacheco, Pablo, Meijaard, Erik

“…New plantations can either cause deforestation by replacing natural forests or avoid this by using previously cleared areas. The extent of these two situations…”
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Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices by Gaveau, David L A, Locatelli, Bruno, Salim, Mohammad A, Husnayaen, Manurung, Timer, Descals, Adrià, Angelsen, Arild, Meijaard, Erik, Sheil, Douglas

“…Much concern about tropical deforestation focuses on oil palm plantations, but their impacts remain poorly quantified. Using nation-wide interpretation of…”
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Four decades of forest persistence, clearance and logging on Borneo by Gaveau, David L A, Sloan, Sean, Molidena, Elis, Yaen, Husna, Sheil, Doug, Abram, Nicola K, Ancrenaz, Marc, Nasi, Robert, Quinones, Marcela, Wielaard, Niels, Meijaard, Erik

“…The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale…”
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Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses by Sayer, Jeffrey, Sunderland, Terry, Ghazoul, Jaboury, Pfund, Jean-Laurent, Sheil, Douglas, Meijaard, Erik, Venter, Michelle, Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni, Day, Michael, Garcia, Claude, van Oosten, Cora, Buck, Louise E.

“…“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas…”
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Palaeoecology of Southeast Asian megafauna-bearing sites from the Pleistocene and a review of environmental changes in the region by Louys, Julien, Meijaard, Erik

“…To reconstruct the palaeoenvironments of megafauna-bearing sites from Pleistocene Southeast Asia, and to describe general environmental changes in the region…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives by Morgans, Courtney L, Meijaard, Erik, Santika, Truly, Law, Elizabeth, Budiharta, Sugeng, Ancrenaz, Marc, Wilson, Kerrie A

“…Industrial oil palm plantations in South East Asia have caused significant biodiversity losses and perverse social outcomes. To address concerns over…”
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African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species by Luskin, Matthew Scott, Meijaard, Erik, Surya, Selly, Sheherazade, Walzer, Chris, Linkie, Matthew

“…The spread of the most recent African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in Asia since late 2018 poses a significant threat to endemic pig species and socioeconomic…”
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The environmental impacts of palm oil in context by Meijaard, Erik, Brooks, Thomas M., Carlson, Kimberly M., Slade, Eleanor M., Garcia-Ulloa, John, Gaveau, David L. A., Lee, Janice Ser Huay, Santika, Truly, Juffe-Bignoli, Diego, Struebig, Matthew J., Wich, Serge A., Ancrenaz, Marc, Koh, Lian Pin, Zamira, Nadine, Abrams, Jesse F., Prins, Herbert H. T., Sendashonga, Cyriaque N., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Furumo, Paul R., Macfarlane, Nicholas, Hoffmann, Rachel, Persio, Marcos, Descals, Adrià, Szantoi, Zoltan, Sheil, Douglas

“…Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of…”
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High-resolution global map of smallholder and industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations by Descals, AdriÃ, Wich, Serge, Meijaard, Erik, Gaveau, David L. A, Peedell, Stephen, Szantoi, Zoltan

“…Oil seed crops, especially oil palm, are among the most rapidly expanding agricultural land uses, and their expansion is known to cause significant…”
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Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed by Wilson, Kerrie A, Auerbach, Nancy A, Sam, Katerina, Magini, Ariana G, Moss, Alexander St L, Langhans, Simone D, Budiharta, Sugeng, Terzano, Dilva, Meijaard, Erik

“…Target 19, set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, seeks to improve the knowledge, science base, and technologies relating to biodiversity. We will fail…”
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The historical range and drivers of decline of the Tapanuli orangutan by Meijaard, Erik, Ni'matullah, Safwanah, Dennis, Rona, Sherman, Julie, Onrizal, Wich, Serge A

“…The Tapanuli Orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is the most threatened great ape species in the world. It is restricted to an area of about 1,000 km2 of upland…”
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Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Mapping with Details: Smallholder versus Industrial Plantations and their Extent in Riau, Sumatra by Descals, Adrià, Szantoi, Zoltan, Meijaard, Erik, Sutikno, Harsono, Rindanata, Guruh, Wich, Serge

“…Oil palm is rapidly expanding in Southeast Asia and represents one of the major drivers of deforestation in the region. This includes both industrial-scale and…”
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Better land-use allocation outperforms land sparing and land sharing approaches to conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia by Law, Elizabeth A., Meijaard, Erik, Bryan, Brett A., Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Koh, Lian Pin, Wilson, Kerrie A.

“…[Display omitted] •We evaluated the ability of multifunctional landscapes to satisfy diverse stakeholders.•No land-use scenario met all targets, with the…”
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Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes by Law, Elizabeth A., Bryan, Brett A., Meijaard, Erik, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Struebig, Matthew J., Watts, Matthew E., Wilson, Kerrie A.

“…1. Tropical forest landscapes face competing demands for conserving biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services and accommodating production systems such as…”
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Forest loss and Borneo's climate by McAlpine, Clive A, Johnson, Alex, Salazar, Alvaro, Syktus, Jozef, Wilson, Kerrie, Meijaard, Erik, Seabrook, Leonie, Dargusch, Paul, Nordin, Haziq, Sheil, Douglas

“…The equatorial island of Borneo is a deforestation hotspot. However, the influence of forest loss on the island's climate remains largely unexplored. Here, we…”
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Interannual climate variation, land type and village livelihood effects on fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia by Santika, Truly, Budiharta, Sugeng, Law, Elizabeth A., Dennis, Rona A., Dohong, Alue, Struebig, Matthew J., Medrilzam, Gunawan, Haris, Meijaard, Erik, Wilson, Kerrie A.

“…•We assessed the drivers of fires in Kalimantan using climate, soil, forest, and livelihoods data.•In intact forest landscapes, fires in all years were…”
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Anticipated climate and land‐cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo's orang‐utans by Struebig, Matthew J, Fischer, Manuela, Gaveau, David L. A, Meijaard, Erik, Wich, Serge A, Gonner, Catherine, Sykes, Rachel, Wilting, Andreas, Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie

“…Habitat loss and climate change pose a double jeopardy for many threatened taxa, making the identification of optimal habitat for the future a conservation…”
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