EFForTS-BEE

EFForTS-BEE

Biodiversity enrichment in oil palm plantations: plant succession and integration (EFForTS-BEE)

Status: ongoing

Summary

The transformation of rainforests into oil palm plantations leads to dramatic losses in biodiversity and in ecological functioning. In order to test possibilities for alleviation, we established a biodiversity enrichment experiment by planting tree islands in an oil palm landscape, systematically varying plot size and species number.

Coordination team

PI’s

• Dr. Holger Kreft (University of Göttingen - Germany)
• Dr. Dirk Hölscher (University of Göttingen - Germany)
• Dr. Bambang Irawan (UNJA - Indonesia)
• Dr. Leti Sundawati (IPB - Indonesia)

Scientific coordination

• Gustavo Paterno (University of Göttingen - Germany)

Associated researches

• Dr. Nathaly Guerrero-Ramirez
• Dr. Fabiam Branbach
• Dr. Delphine Clara Zemp

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Selected publications

Paterno, G. B., et al. (2024). Diverse and larger tree islands promote native tree diversity in oil palm landscapes. Science, 386(6723), 795–802. link

Zemp, D. C. et al. (2023). Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature, 1–6. link

Kikuchi, T. et al. (2024). Combining planting trees and natural regeneration promotes long-term structural complexity in oil palm landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management, 569, 122182. link

Montoya-Sánchez, et al. (2023). Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), Article 1. link