Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions

DJ Murphy, K Goggin, RRM Paterson - CABI agriculture and bioscience, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is by far the most important global oil crop,
supplying about 40% of all traded vegetable oil. Palm oils are key dietary components …

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Scientists' warning to humanity on tree extinctions

M Rivers, AC Newton, S Oldfield… - Plants, People …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Trees play vital roles in many of the world's ecosystems while
providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are …

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

T Stévart, G Dauby, PP Lowry, A Blach-Overgaard… - Science …, 2019‏ - science.org
Preserving tropical biodiversity is an urgent challenge when faced with the growing needs of
countries. Despite their crucial importance for terrestrial ecosystems, most tropical plant …

RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions

G Dauby, R Zaiss, A Blach-Overgaard, L Catarino… - …, 2016‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The tropical vegetation of Africa is characterized by high levels of species diversity but is
undergoing important shifts in response to ongoing climate change and increasing …

PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database of palms worldwide

WD Kissling, H Balslev, WJ Baker, J Dransfield… - Scientific Data, 2019‏ - nature.com
Plant traits are critical to plant form and function—including growth, survival and
reproduction—and therefore shape fundamental aspects of population and ecosystem …

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances

A Esquivel-Muelbert, D Galbraith, KG Dexter… - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
High levels of species diversity hamper current understanding of how tropical forests may
respond to environmental change. In the tropics, water availability is a leading driver of the …

On opportunities and threats to conserve the phylogenetic diversity of Neotropical palms

SJE Velazco, JC Svenning, BR Ribeiro… - Diversity and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Palms are an ecologically and societally important plant group, with high diversity in the
Neotropics. Here, we estimated the impacts of future climate change on phylogenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands

LF Calambás-Trochez, SJE Velazco… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
South Brazilian grasslands are at risk due to climate change and activities that convert
native vegetation into agricultural lands. We used 12 native palm species as ecological …

Low extinction risk for an important plant resource: Conservation assessments of continental African palms (Arecaceae/Palmae)

A Cosiaux, LM Gardiner, FW Stauffer, SP Bachman… - Biological …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Although the palm flora of continental Africa totals just 66 species, they are amongst the
most useful plants across the continent, providing many important resources for human …