Land-use change driven by human population growth and economic activity will continue to
impact both natural habitats and land currently being used for food, fiber, and fuel production…

European demand for renewable energy resources has led to rapidly increasing transatlantic
exports of wood pellets from the southeastern United States (SE US) since 2009. …

Global environmental problems such as climate change are not bounded by national borders
or scientific disciplines, and therefore require international, interdisciplinary teamwork to …

Orchid bees (Apidae, Euglossini) are important pollinators in the Amazon forest. In eastern
Brazilian Amazon, secondary forest and pastures are being replaced by oil palm plantations. …

Land use change impact species richness and functional diversity (FD). In the Brazilian
Amazon, we examined the impacts of oil palm plantations on orchid bee (Apidae: Euglossini) …

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is a rapidly expanding crop in the Amazonian region of Brazil.
Brazilian law requires all landowners, including oil palm plantations, to maintain forest …

Bringing together and successfully managing a highly interdisciplinary (ID) research team of
socioeconomic, biophysical, and engineering scientists is highly challenging, particularly …

Understanding how bees use resources at a landscape scale is essential for developing
meaningful management plans that sustain populations and the pollination services they …

Phenotypic variation in both morphology and symmetry of individuals may appear due to
environmental stress caused by land-use changes. Here, we evaluated fluctuating asymmetry (…

Although renewable energy holds great promise in mitigating climate change, there are
socioeconomic and ecological tradeoffs related to each form of renewable energy. Forest-…