The postcard shows a plantation worker standing next to a tree on a rubber plantation in Trinidad.

Subsidies to promote tree plantations have been questioned because of negative impacts of the forestry industry. Quantitative evidence on the socioeconomic impacts of afforestation subsidies or of tree plantations is ...

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations (FAO), in the last decades tree plantations expanded worldwide(40% between 1990 and 2005), because of an increase in the demand ofwood and fiber (Keenan ...

Primates bark-strip trees in forest plantations worldwide, producing large economic losses. The primate and tree species involved, the spatial and temporal patterns of this problem, the effectiveness of the methods used ...

Scattered trees are an important feature of the matrix of agricultural landscapes, but their role in biodiversity conservation is still controversial and largely unexplored. We aim to investigate the value of scattered ...

Distinguishing between natural forests from exotic tree plantations is essential to get an accurate picture of the world's state of forests. Most exotic tree plantations support lower levels of biodiversity and have less ...