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 …

An appraisal of Indonesia's immense peat carbon stock using national peatland maps: uncertainties and potential losses from conversion

M Warren, K Hergoualc'h, JB Kauffman… - Carbon balance and …, 2017 - Springer
Background A large proportion of the world's tropical peatlands occur in Indonesia where
rapid conversion and associated losses of carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services have …

From carbon sink to carbon source: extensive peat oxidation in insular Southeast Asia since 1990

J Miettinen, A Hooijer, R Vernimmen… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tropical peatlands of the western part of insular Southeast Asia have experienced extensive
land cover changes since 1990. Typically involving drainage, these land cover changes …

Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation

HV Cooper, S Evers, P Aplin, N Crout… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse
gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain …

Climate change affecting oil palm agronomy, and oil palm cultivation increasing climate change, require amelioration

RRM Paterson, N Lima - Ecology and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Palm oil is used in various valued commodities and is a large global industry worth over US
$50 billion annually. Oil palms (OP) are grown commercially in Indonesia and Malaysia and …

Open digital mapping as a cost-effective method for mapping peat thickness and assessing the carbon stock of tropical peatlands

B Minasny, BI Setiawan, SK Saptomo, AB McBratney - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
Tropical peatland holds a large amount of carbon in the terrestrial ecosystem. Indonesia,
responding to the global climate issues, has legislation on the protection and management …

Drainage increases CO2 and N2O emissions from tropical peat soils

JA Prananto, B Minasny, LP Comeau… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical peatlands are vital ecosystems that play an important role in global carbon storage
and cycles. Current estimates of greenhouse gases from these peatlands are uncertain as …

Carbon emissions from South‐East Asian peatlands will increase despite emission‐reduction schemes

LS Wijedasa, S Sloan, SE Page… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon emissions from drained peatlands converted to agriculture in South‐East Asia (ie,
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo) are globally significant and increasing. Here, we …

Total and heterotrophic soil respiration in a swamp forest and oil palm plantations on peat in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

K Hergoualc'h, DT Hendry, D Murdiyarso, LV Verchot - Biogeochemistry, 2017 - Springer
Heterotrophic respiration is a major component of the soil C balance however we critically
lack understanding of its variation upon conversion of peat swamp forests in tropical areas …

Deforested and drained tropical peatland sites show poorer peat substrate quality and lower microbial biomass and activity than unmanaged swamp forest

M Könönen, J Jauhiainen, P Straková… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Swamp forests on deep tropical peatlands have undergone extensive deforestation and
draining for agriculture and plantations, consequently becoming globally significant carbon …