Keywords: oil palm
Soil greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peat swamp forests and oil palm plantations in central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Conversion of tropical peat swamp forests to oil palm plantations disrupts the carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles, and...
Using peat shrub for agriculture likely reduces CO2 emissions and improves local livelihood
SUMMARY Indonesia has around 4 Mha of degraded peat shrub from a total of about 15 Mha peatland nationally....
The effect of nitrogen fertiliser on nitrous oxide emission in oil palm plantation
SUMMARY Oil palm is the largest agricultural crop in the tropics, accounting for 13% of all tropical land cover....
Sustainable oil palm planting on peat soils in Sarawak
SUMMARY To produce high oil palm yields growers have to observe the practices that can ensure the crop is...
Effective water management for oil palm in peatland: for peat conservation and yield optimization
SUMMARY Oil palm developments in peat land need to emphasize an effective water management in order to have optimum...
Challenges and opportunities for eddy-flux measurements of CO2 emissions of oil palm on peat
This paper reports on the opportunities and challenges of measuring the total net ecosystem exchange from managed tropical oil...
Profiling water table depth and soil moisture in a drained peat swamp hosting oil palm
Oil palm is a crop highly valued for its oil. Land conversion to host oil palm is proceeding rapidly...
Towards attaining high yields and long term sustainability of second generation oil palm plants on peat in north Sumatera, Indonesia – The Asian Agri experience
Asian Agri‘s planting of Gen-1 oil palms on peat commenced in 1991. Due to lack of experience with peat,inadequate...
Best management practices for sustainable development palm planting on peat: TH plantations Berhad’s experience
SUMMARY Claims were made that oil palm development on peat is not sustainable due to the impact on the...
Carbon budgets under different land uses on tropical peatland
Tropical peatland contains about 3% of the total global soil carbon and much of this is being released from...