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Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics

Published:2019-11 Issue:11 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Quezada Juan Carlos¹²^ORCID,Etter Andres³^ORCID,Ghazoul Jaboury⁴⁵⁶,Buttler Alexandre¹²⁷,Guillaume Thomas¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering ENAC, Laboratory of Ecological Systems ECOS, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Site Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

3. Department of Ecology and Territory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.

4. Chair of Ecosystem Management, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETHZ, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

5. Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation, Ecology and Biodiversity, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, Netherlands.

6. Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, Scotland.

7. Laboratoire de Chrono-Environnement, UMR CNRS 6249, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, Université de Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, France.

Abstract

Pasture conversion is a promising alternative to cut down the carbon footprint of deforestation for oil palm expansion.

Funder

Swiss National Science (r4d - Ecosystems) “Oil Palm Adaptive Landscape” Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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