Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes

DC Zemp, N Guerrero-Ramirez, F Brambach, K Darras… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, large knowledge gaps
persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated …

Soil carbon stock changes in tropical croplands are mainly driven by carbon inputs: A synthesis

K Fujisaki, T Chevallier, L Chapuis-Lardy… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) balance is an important component of the terrestrial carbon (C)
budget. However, effect of cropland management changes on SOC dynamics has not been …

Mixed-species tree plantings enhance structural complexity in oil palm plantations

DC Zemp, M Ehbrecht, D Seidel, C Ammer… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversion of structurally complex rainforests into simplified oil palm monocultures leads to
dramatic losses of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. To alleviate negative ecological …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of management practices on soil organic carbon stocks of oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia

N Rahman, KE Giller, A de Neergaard, J Magid… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in global production of and demand for palm oil has resulted in large-
scale expansion of oil palm monoculture in the world's tropical regions, particularly in …

Oil palm agroforestry enhances crop yield and ecosystem carbon stock in northeast India: Implications for the United Nations sustainable development goals

J Ahirwal, UK Sahoo, U Thangjam, P Thong - Sustainable Production and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The unprecedented increase in global demands of vegetable oil and biofuel production has
spurred oil palm cultivation in the tropics that resulting in deforestation and biodiversity loss …

Changes in soil organic carbon stocks after conversion from forest to oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo

N Rahman, A de Neergaard, J Magid… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The continuous rise in the global demand for palm oil has resulted in large-scale expansion
of industrial oil palm plantations—largely at the expense of primary and secondary forests …

Soil organic carbon storage in forest restoration models and environmental conditions

RR Paula, M Calmon, ML Lopes-Assad… - Journal of Forestry …, 2022 - Springer
The scale of forest and landscape restoration is expected to increase during the UN Decade
on Ecosystem Restoration and its contribution to the provision of critical ecosystem services …

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) shows higher mycorrhizal colonization when planted in agroforestry than in monoculture

R da Silva Maia, SS Vasconcelos, AB Viana-Junior… - Agroforestry …, 2021 - Springer
The root system of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has characteristics unfavorable for
nutrient absorption, which may cause it to be dependent on arbuscular mycorrhizal …

Oil palm agroforestry shows higher soil permanganate oxidizable carbon than monoculture plantations in Eastern Amazonia

MF Gomes, SS Vasconcelos… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The expansion of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) cultivation in degraded areas has
increased in the Brazilian Amazon. Cultivation of oil palm in diversified agroforestry systems …

Above-and belowground carbon stocks of two organic, agroforestry-based oil palm production systems in eastern Amazonia

HMN Ramos, SS Vasconcelos, OR Kato… - Agroforestry …, 2018 - Springer
Ecosystem-level assessments of carbon (C) stocks of agroforestry systems are scarce. We
quantified the ecosystem-level C stocks of one agroforestry-based oil palm production …