Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

WF Laurance, J Sayer, KG Cassman - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2014 - cell.com
The human population is projected to reach 11 billion this century, with the greatest
increases in tropical develo** nations. This growth, in concert with rising per-capita …

Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

S Wigboldus, L Klerkx, C Leeuwis, M Schut… - Agronomy for …, 2016 - Springer
Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease-
resistant and drought-tolerant maize varieties, zero-tillage techniques, permaculture …

Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

A Ahrends, PM Hollingsworth, AD Ziegler… - Global Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The first decade of the new millennium saw a boom in rubber prices. This led to rapid and
widespread land conversion to monoculture rubber plantations in continental SE Asia …

Carbon stocks in bamboo ecosystems worldwide: Estimates and uncertainties

JQ Yuen, T Fung, AD Ziegler - Forest Ecology and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
From a review of 184 studies on bamboo biomass for 70 species (22 genera) we estimate
plausible ranges for above-ground carbon (AGC) biomass (16–128 Mg C/ha), below-ground …

Realizing the values of natural capital for inclusive, sustainable development: Informing China's new ecological development strategy

H Zheng, L Wang, W Peng, C Zhang, C Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
A major challenge in transforming development to inclusive, sustainable pathways is the
pervasive and persistent trade-off between provisioning services (eg, agricultural …

Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment

N Van Vliet, O Mertz, A Heinimann, T Langanke… - Global environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

KM Carlson, LM Curran, D Ratnasari… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Industrial agricultural plantations are a rapidly increasing yet largely unmeasured source of
tropical land cover change. Here, we evaluate impacts of oil palm plantation development …

[HTML][HTML] A review of SWAT studies in Southeast Asia: applications, challenges and future directions

ML Tan, PW Gassman, R Srinivasan, JG Arnold… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is recognized as one of the top
hydrological models applied for addressing hydrologic and environmental issues. This is the …

Increasing demand for natural rubber necessitates a robust sustainability initiative to mitigate impacts on tropical biodiversity

E Warren‐Thomas, PM Dolman… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Strong international demand for natural rubber is driving expansion of industrial‐scale and
smallholder monoculture plantations, with> 2 million ha established during the last decade …