tropical agro-ecology tropical peatlands greenhouse gas emissions peat fire riparian buffers understorey vegetation sustainable agriculture land-use change
Southeast Asia is home to one of the oldest and most consistent rainforests in the world, with high endemic biodiversity and carbon storage, and the largest cover of carbon-rich tropical peat swamp forests (Yule, 2010; Xu et al., 2018). However, these tropical forests are becoming increasingly disturbed by anthropogenic land-use changes, particularly the expansion of oil palm agriculture (Miettinen et al., 2016; Dhandapani et al., 2023).
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Title
Editorial: Biogeochemical and biodiversity impacts of oil palm land-use in Southeast Asia
Authors
Selva Dhandapani (Corresponding Author) - Agri Food and Biosciences Institute
Catherine M. Yule - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Julia Drewer - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Publication details
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol.7, pp.1-3