A5087288644- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Coconut Research and Applications
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
University of Cambridge
2020-2024
Agriculture is expanding rapidly across the tropics. While cultivation can boost socioeconomic conditions and food security, it also threatens native ecosystems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), which grown pantropically, most productive vegetable oil crop worldwide. The impacts of have been studied extensively in Southeast Asia - to a lesser extent Latin America but, comparison, very little known about its Africa: palm's range, where rapidly. In this paper, we introduce large-scale research...
Abstract In the world's leading palm oil‐producing countries (Indonesia and Malaysia), smallholders make up about 40 per cent of total oil plantation area. Management in smallholdings can be highly variable, ranging from intensive monoculture to polyculture systems, especially earlier years cultivation when open canopies allow a variety understorey crop types grown alongside palm. Currently, many plantations region are mature due replanted, which is likely have substantial impacts on...
Abstract In the past century, oil palm has developed from a sustenance crop in West Africa to major global agricultural commodity, with substantial impacts on biodiversity, environment, society, and livelihoods. Although industry contributes local national economies across tropics, there are significant concerns about negative effects of cultivation biodiversity ecosystem functioning, as well communities farmers. There is growing awareness need for managing landscapes more sustainably,...
Abstract The expansion of oil palm agriculture across Southeast Asia has caused significant biodiversity losses, with the reduction in habitat heterogeneity that accompanies conversion forest to being a major contributing factor. However, owing their long commercial lifespan, plantations can support relatively high levels vegetation complexity compared annual crops. There is therefore potential for implementation management strategies increase and associated within‐plantation heterogeneity,...