We challenge the widespread appraisal that organic farming is the fundamental alternative
to conventional farming for harnessing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Certification of …

Urban areas are growing worldwide and alter landscapes in a persistent fashion, thereby
affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as pollination in a little understood way. …

Land-use transitions can enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers but potential
economic-ecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. Here, we present an interdisciplinary …

Rising global demand for vegetable oil during the last few decades has led to a drastic
increase in the land area under oil palm. Especially in Southeast Asia, the oil palm boom has …

The land‐sharing versus land‐sparing debate recently stagnated, lacking an integrating
perspective in agricultural landscapes as well as consideration of ecosystem services. Here, we …

In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 1 , large knowledge gaps persist
on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated tropical …

Habitat fragmentation is a primary threat to biodiversity, but how it affects the structure and
stability of ecological networks is poorly understood. Here, we studied plant–pollinator and …

Reconciling biodiversity conservation with increasing demand for agricultural production is
a major challenge. A long-running discourse that addresses this challenge is the land-…

Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we …

The economic value of natural regulation of agricultural pests by bats has been estimated
both by avoided cost models and by experimental predator-exclusion approaches. We review …