How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?

Fitzherbert, Emily B., Struebig, Matthew J., Morel, Alexandra, Danielsen, Finn, Bruhl, Carsten A., Donald, Paul F. and Phalan, Ben (2008) How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23 (10). pp. 538-545. ISSN 1872-8383

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2011 10:56
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24728
DOI:	10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.012

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