Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity?

By Lian Pin Koh, D. Wilcove. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment (2011, background): “However, more than half of the expansion was at the expense of natural forests (Koh and Wilcove 2008).”
• Oil palm expansion among smallholder farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia (2016, background): “…and deforestation is likely, contributing to biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and related environmental problems (Margono et al., 2014; Wilcove and Koh, 2010; Buttler and Laurence, 2009; Danielsen et al., 2009; Fitzherbert et al., 2008; Koh and Wilcove, 2008; Miyamoto, 2006).”
• Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat disturbance: A pantropical meta-analysis (2017, background): “Currently, Southeast Asia is under the highest anthropogenic pressure of all major tropical forest regions, and the human footprint is increasing mainly due to high human density and expansion of oil palm monoculture (Koh and Wilcove, 2008; Venter et al., 2016).”
• Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes (2013, background): “org), except data in italics: Koh and Wilcove (2008) (period: 1990–2005).”
• Rates and drivers of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000–2012 (2015, background): “Although most deforested mangrove was replaced with agriculture or aquaculture, a considerable deforested area was classified as mangrove in 2012, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia.”
• Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, background): “…Explanation References Biodiversity loss Conversion of either primary or secondary forests to oil palm results in significant biodiversity loss Koh and Wilcove (2008) Deforestation and peat land conversion Analysis of landcover data suggests that during the period 1990–2005, 55–59% of oil…”
• Is Oil Palm the Next Emerging Threat to the Amazon? (2009, background): “In peninsular Malaysia, for example, Koh & Wilcove [3] found a 77% decline in bird species richness and an 83% decline in butterfly richness in oil palm plantations, relative to old-growth forest.”
• Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals (2009, background): “Today, much of Indonesia’s deforestation occurs in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), where oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations are expanding at the expense of native forests ( Koh & Wilcove 2008 ).”
• Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf-litter (2010, background): “…crops. ince the majority of terrestrial biodiversity is supported n the tropical environments in which oil palm grows best Fitzherbert et al. 2008; Turner, Snaddon, Fayle, & Foster 008) and much oil palm expansion is into forested areas Koh & Wilcove 2008), this trend is a major cause for concern.”