Having “islands” of trees peppered across oil palm plantations can boost the biodiversity of the landscape while maintaining crop yields, a new study shows. Researchers found that biodiversity ...

Tree islands restore nature in oil palm plantations. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 11 / 241118125719.htm. University of Göttingen.

More information: Gustavo B. Paterno et al, Diverse and larger tree islands promote native tree diversity in oil palm landscapes, Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.ado1629 Provided by ...

They then planted between zero and six native tree species on each of their tree islands. They also kept four control plots with oil palms standing. The tree islands vary in area from 25-1,600 ...

The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem ...