The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm

NAA Iddris, G Formaglio, C Paul, V von Groß… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oil palm is the most productive oil crop, but its high productivity is associated with
conventional management (that is, high fertilization rates and herbicide application), causing …

Reducing fertilizer and avoiding herbicides in oil palm plantations—ecological and economic valuations

KFA Darras, MD Corre, G Formaglio, A Tjoa… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Oil palm plantations are intensively managed agricultural systems that increasingly
dominate certain tropical regions. Oil palm monocultures have been criticized because of …

Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of rapid agricultural development

BA Williams, HS Grantham, JEM Watson… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
As humanity's demand for resources continues to rise and productive arable lands become
increasingly scarce, many of Earth's remaining intact regions are at heightened risk of …

Assessing microhabitat, landscape features and intraguild relationships in the occupancy of the enigmatic and threatened Andean tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus …

JC Cepeda-Duque, G Andrade-Ponce… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mesocarnivores play a key role in ecosystem dynamics through the regulation of prey
populations and are sensitive to environmental changes; thus, they are often considered …

[HTML][HTML] The road towards wildlife friendlier infrastructure: Mitigation planning through landscape-level priority settings and species connectivity frameworks

EAD Paemelaere, A Mejía, S Quintero, M Hallett… - Environmental Impact …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current global road network expansion scenario poses a conflict of interest between
Sustainable Development Goals of human well-being and biosphere, which could be …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale industrial plantations are more likely than smallholdings to threaten biodiversity from oil palm replanting spatial disturbances

B Azhar, A Oon, AM Lechner, A Ashton-Butt… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Certification has advanced efforts to increase the environmental sustainability of oil palm
agriculture. However, there is little consensus among stakeholders on what type of farming …

[HTML][HTML] Integral analysis of environmental and economic performance of combined agricultural intensification & bioenergy production in the Orinoquia region

NE Ramirez-Contreras, CA Fontanilla-Díaz… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification is a key strategy to help meet increasing demand for food and
bioenergy. It has the potential to reduce direct and indirect land use change (LUC) and …

Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species' populations

A Semper-Pascual, J Decarre, M Baumann… - Biodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
Land-use change is a global threat to biodiversity, but how land-use change affects species
beyond the direct effect of habitat loss remains poorly understood. We developed an …

Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity

MD Pashkevich, AAK Aryawan, SH Luke… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Palm oil is the most traded vegetable oil worldwide. Production is concentrated in Southeast
Asia, where established oil palm plantations dominate the landscape in many regions …