کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
143147 163183 2008 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
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How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?
چکیده انگلیسی

Oil palm is one of the world's most rapidly increasing crops. We assess its contribution to tropical deforestation and review its biodiversity value. Oil palm has replaced large areas of forest in Southeast Asia, but land-cover change statistics alone do not allow an assessment of where it has driven forest clearance and where it has simply followed it. Oil palm plantations support much fewer species than do forests and often also fewer than other tree crops. Further negative impacts include habitat fragmentation and pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions. With rising demand for vegetable oils and biofuels, and strong overlap between areas suitable for oil palm and those of most importance for biodiversity, substantial biodiversity losses will only be averted if future oil palm expansion is managed to avoid deforestation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: - Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2008, Pages 538–545
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