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Human and Environmental Factors Shape Tree Species Assemblages in West African Tropical Forests Open

Sijeh Agbor Asuk, Joseph P. Wayman, Jon P. Sadler, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Thomas J. Matthews , et al. · 2025

Aim This study investigated how human activities and local environmental variables shape tree assemblages (species composition in a defined location), comparing their effects on edible and inedible tree species. Three hypotheses were teste…

Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework Open

James Reed, Jos Barlow, Rachel Carmenta, Sima Fakheran, Amy Ickowitz , et al. · 2025

The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) marked a renewed commitment to addressing the global biodiversity crisis. This framework of four goals and 23 interim targets is intended to guide and accelerate conservation efforts over the next 25…

Moving beyond forest cover: Linking forest density, age, and fragmentation to diet Open

Aeryn Ng, Sarah E. Gergel, Maya Fromstein, Trey Sunderland, Hisham Zerriffi , et al. · 2025

Forests support food security and nutrition worldwide, especially so for highly forest-dependent communities who collect a variety of food products from nearby forests. While the importance of forest cover to the diets of forest-dependent …

Assessing CREMAs’ Capacity to Govern Landscape Resources in the Western Wildlife Corridor of Northern Ghana Open

Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, M. Zida, Kwabena O. Asubonteng, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed , et al. · 2025

Ghana initiated community resource management areas (CREMAs) as a community-based natural management approach to give local communities the right and power to manage natural resources within their territorial boundaries. The expectation is…

Forests and Food: Challenges and Opportunities Open

Mi Sun Park, Trey Sunderland · 2025

Protecting forests and trees is essential for global agricultural productivity Open

Gayoung Yang, Constantin M. Zohner, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Wilma J. Blaser‐Hart, Christian Dupraz , et al. · 2024

Balancing forest conservation and agricultural production is essential for a sustainable future. Here we review the scientific evidence for the relationships between forests and agricultural productivity across different scales, summarizin…

Social justice and inclusive conservation must guide GBF implementation Open

James Reed, Jos Barlow, Rachel Carmenta, Sima Fakheran, Amy Ickowitz , et al. · 2024

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework marked a renewed commitment to address the biodiversity crisis. This framework, consisting of four goals and 23 targets which are intended to guide conservation efforts for the next thirty…

The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia Open

Malaika P. Yanou, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed, Shine Nakwenda, Trey Sunderland · 2024

The contribution of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) to natural resource management has recently gained increasing prominence in academia, policymaking, and civil society. However, persistent knowledge gaps concerning the contribution …

From conflict to collaboration through inclusive landscape governance: Evidence from a contested landscape in Ghana Open

James Reed, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Samuel Adeyanju, Abdul Wahid Arimiyaw, Kwabena O. Asubonteng , et al. · 2024

Human and Environmental Factors Shape Tree Species Assemblages in West African Tropical Forests Open

Sijeh Agbor Asuk, Joseph P. Wayman, Jon P. Sadler, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Thomas J. Matthews , et al. · 2024

Human activities exert pronounced influence on forest ecosystems, impacting biodiversity and functions across multiple scales. However, the consequences of low-intensity human activities on tropical forest ecosystems are difficult to asses…

Human and Environmental Factors Shape Tree Species Assemblages in West African Tropical Forests Open

Sijeh Agbor Asuk, Joseph P. Wayman, Jon P. Sadler, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Thomas J. Matthews , et al. · 2024

Human activities exert a pronounced influence on forest ecosystems, impacting both biodiversity and function across multiple scales. Despite this, the consequences of low-intensity human activities on tropical forest ecosystems are difficu…

Monitoring spatiotemporal changes in land use/land cover and its impacts on ecosystem services in southern Zambia Open

Diling Liang, James Reed, Sima Fakheran, Kaala Moombe, Freddie Sayi Siangulube , et al. · 2024

Ecosystems play a vital role in human well-being, yet the widespread loss of ecosystem services due to human activities, including agricultural expansion and deforestation, remains a significant concern. Despite the wealth of research high…

Do provisioning ecosystem services change along gradients of increasing agricultural production? Open

Ronju Ahammad, Stephanie A. Tomscha, Sarah E. Gergel, Frédéric Baudron, Jean‐Yves Duriaux‐Chavarría , et al. · 2024

Towards more inclusive community landscape governance: Drivers and assessment indicators in northern Ghana Open

Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Malaika P. Yanou, Houria Djoudi, James Reed , et al. · 2023

Community-based approaches to landscape governance are considered more legitimate, equitable, and inclusive ways to manage natural resources and more effective in achieving conservation and livelihood goals than centralised and top-down ap…

Use, value, and desire: ecosystem services under agricultural intensification in a changing landscape in West Kalimantan (Indonesia) Open

Ira J. Sutherland, Josh van Vianen, Dominic Rowland, Ignacio Palomo, Unai Pascual , et al. · 2023

A fundamental challenge is to understand and navigate trade-offs between ecosystem services (ES) in dynamic landscapes and to account for interactions between local people and broad-scale drivers, such as agricultural intensification. Many…

Integrating local and scientific knowledge: The need for decolonising knowledge for conservation and natural resource management Open

Malaika P. Yanou, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed, Kaala Moombe, Trey Sunderland · 2023

Multistakeholder platforms for integrated landscape governance: The case of Kalomo District, Zambia Open

Freddie Sayi Siangulube, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed, Kaala Moombe, Trey Sunderland · 2023

Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) that bring together a range of actors to collaboratively address land and natural resource governance issues are increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the extent to which such platforms effec…

Forest regrowth improves people’s dietary quality in Nigeria Open

Laura Vang Rasmussen, Bowy den Braber, Charlotte Hall, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Matthew E. Fagan , et al. · 2023

Feasibility of Tea/Tree Intercropping Plantations on Soil Ecological Service Function in China Open

Yutong Feng, Trey Sunderland · 2023

In order to explore whether tea/tree intercropping plantations have positive effects on soil ecosystem services functions, the possible effects of intercropping cultivation of 151 different tea and other species’ intercropping setups were …

Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world Open

Rachel Carmenta, Jos Barlow, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Érika Berenguer, Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad , et al. · 2023

Effectiveness of Heilongjiang Nanwenghe Nature Reserve in Improving Habitat Quality in and around the Reserve Open

Daozheng Li, Diling Liang, Sima Fakheran, Tongning Li, Joseph Mumuni , et al. · 2023

Biodiversity loss is a critical challenge globally, and protected areas (PAs) has been established as an important policy tool for conservation. However, doubts exist regarding their effectiveness, and their policy effects and spatial spil…

Farmer-Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana: are integrated landscape approaches the way forward? Open

Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Trey Sunderland, Houria Djoudi, James Reed · 2023

Over the past 20 years, recurrent and violent conflicts between farmers and Fulani pastoralists have persisted in Northern Ghana. These conflicts mainly revolve around access to and utilisation of natural resources such as land and water. …

A call for a wider perspective on sustainable forestry: Introduction to the<i> Special Issue</i> on The Social Impacts of Logging Open

Tessa Minter, Daichi Naito, Trey Sunderland · 2023

Global demand for timber is projected to grow and much of this timber will continue to be sourced from natural forests. As these forests, particularly in the tropics, tend to be inhabited by the world's most marginalized communities, the s…

Spatial Tools for Inclusive Landscape Governance: Negotiating Land Use, Land-Cover Change, and Future Landscape Scenarios in Two Multistakeholder Platforms in Zambia Open

Freddie Sayi Siangulube, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed, Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, Trey Sunderland · 2023

Landscape approaches are being promoted as a form of negotiated governance to help reconcile competing land uses and identify common concerns for planning envisioned future landscapes. Multistakeholder platforms play a key role in these ef…

Bornean orangutan <i>Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus</i> population estimate within and around Danau Sentarum National Park, Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan Open

L. Yuliani, Denny O. Bakara, Mohammad Ilyas, Anne E. Russon, Agus Salim , et al. · 2023

Of the three subspecies of Critically Endangered Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus has the smallest population size. One of its most important habitats is the tropical forest within and around Danau Sentarum National Park (DSNP).…

The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation Open

Winy Vasquez, Trey Sunderland · 2023

The current paradigm of biodiversity conservation, with its continued focus on the notion of pristine nature, has resulted in the separation of humans and nature at the expense of both biological and cultural–linguistic diversity. The cont…

Participatory mapping of ecosystem services across a gradient of agricultural intensification in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Open

Alexander Mathys, Josh van Vianen, Dominic Rowland, Sari Narulita, Ignacio Palomo , et al. · 2023

Agrarian change affects the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES) by reducing the extent of natural ecosystems. Agricultural intensification can lead to changes in land covers and livelihood opportunities and it remains unclear how …

Using Scenario Building and Participatory Mapping to Negotiate Conservation-Development Trade-Offs in Northern Ghana Open

Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, Kwabena O. Asubonteng, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Houria Djoudi, Freddie Sayi Siangulube , et al. · 2023

In multifunctional landscapes, expanding economic activities jeopardise the integrity of biodiverse ecosystems, generating conservation-development trade-offs that require multi-stakeholder dialogue and tools to negotiate conflicting objec…

Navigating power imbalances in landscape governance: a network and influence analysis in southern Zambia Open

Freddie Sayi Siangulube, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, James Reed, Houria Djoudi, Davison Gumbo , et al. · 2023

Reforestation, livelihoods and income equality: Lessons learned from China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program Open

Camilla Moioli, Anil Shrestha, Dominik Röeser, Guangyu Wang, Trey Sunderland , et al. · 2023

Despite global momentum in restoration activities, their socio‐economic implications are little studied. Thus far, the limited evidence available tends to overlook equity and equality outcomes. In this work, we aimed at investigating fairn…

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