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Riparian wetland properties counter the effect of land-use change on soil carbon stocks after rainforest conversion to plantations
Progressive conversion of tropical rainforests to agricultural monocultures in South East Asia increasingly affects landscape types such as riparian areas. The impacts of conversions on soil organic matter (SOM) vary with changing landforms. However, this ...
2021Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel
The potential of palm-oil biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared with fossil fuels is increasingly questioned. So far, no measurement-based GHG budgets were available, and plantation age was ignored in Life Cycle Analyses (LCA). Here, w ...
2020Transpiration on the rebound in lowland Sumatra
Thomas Guillaume, Mitsunori Nomura
Following large-scale conversion of rainforest, rubber and oil palm plantations dominate lowland Sumatra (Indonesia) and other parts of South East Asia today, with potentially far-reaching ecohydrological consequences. We assessed how such land-use change ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics
Alexandre Buttler, Thomas Guillaume, Juan Carlos Quezada Rivera
Alternatives to ecologically devastating deforestation land use change trajectories are needed to reduce the carbon footprint of oil palm (OP) plantations in the tropics. Although various land use change options have been proposed, so far, there are no emp ...
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm
Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando
Given their ability to provide food, raw material and alleviate poverty, oil palm (OP) plantations are driving significant losses of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, fuelling a heated debate on ecosystem degradation and conservation. However, while OP-i ...
2018Effects of flooding on phosphorus and iron mobilization in highly weathered soils under different land-use types: Short-term effects and mechanisms
The strong affinity of phosphorus (P) to iron (Fe) oxides and hydroxides in highly weathered tropical soils limits P availability and therefore plant productivity in tropics. In flooded soils, however, P fixed by Fe oxides and hydroxides can be released in ...
Elsevier Science Bv2017Ethanol and lignin production from Brazilian empty fruit bunch biomass
Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman
Brazil Government is promoting palm plantations to use degraded land for biofuels. Palm production is expected to increase 35 per cent in future and there would be profuse biomass available that needs to be handled efficiently. Therefore, in this study the ...
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