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SUBMITTER: Strona G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Strona Giovanni G Stringer Simon D SD Vieilledent Ghislain G Szantoi Zoltan Z Garcia-Ulloa John J A Wich Serge S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180813 35
Despite growing awareness about its detrimental effects on tropical biodiversity, land conversion to oil palm continues to increase rapidly as a consequence of global demand, profitability, and the income opportunity it offers to producing countries. Although most industrial oil palm plantations are located in Southeast Asia, it is argued that much of their future expansion will occur in Africa. We assessed how this could affect the continent's primates by combining information on oil palm suita ...[more]