Sustainable management in crop monocultures: the impact of retaining forest on oil palm yield

Tropical agriculture is expanding rapidly at the expense of forest, driving a global extinction crisis. How to create agricultural landscapes that minimise the clearance of forest and maximise sustainability is thus a key issue. One possibility is protecting natural forest within or adjacent to crop...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2014-03, Vol.9 (3), p.e91695-e91695
Hauptverfasser:	Edwards, Felicity A, Edwards, David P, Sloan, Sean, Hamer, Keith C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural land Agricultural management Agricultural pests Agricultural production Agriculture Arecaceae Biodiversity Biofuels Biology and Life Sciences Birds Conservation of Natural Resources Crop yield Crop yields Crops Ecology and Environmental Sciences Ecosystem Ecosystem services Ecosystems Elevation Environmental sustainability Evaluation Forest ecosystems Forest management Forest protection Forestry Forests Geography Habitats Heterogeneity Landscape Malaysia Mass extinctions Monoculture Oil Oil palm trees Pests Plantations Protection and preservation Proximity Rivers Soil types Species extinction Sustainability Sustainability management Sustainable agriculture Tropical agriculture Tropical forests
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