Beschreibung:
Oil palm cultivation has vastly expanded in the last decades and led to high economic returns, but has also induced environmental problems including reduced biological diversity and impaired ecosystem services. One potential way of reconciling economic and ecological needs would be to foster oil-palm agroforests by planting native tree species with the objective to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. In Sumatra, Indonesia, such an oil palm agroforestry experiment was established and a series of studies evaluated tree performance, oil palm yields and biodiversity changes. In this co...