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SUBMITTER: Lewis K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010673 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lewis Kennedy K Rumpang Elisa E Kho Lip Khoon LK McCalmont Jon J Teh Yit Arn YA Gallego-Sala Angela A Hill Timothy Charles TC
Scientific reports 20200210 1
The recent expansion of oil palm (OP, Elaeis guineensis) plantations into tropical forest peatlands has resulted in ecosystem carbon emissions. However, estimates of net carbon flux from biomass changes require accurate estimates of the above ground biomass (AGB) accumulation rate of OP on peat. We quantify the AGB stocks of an OP plantation on drained peat in Malaysia from 3 to 12 years after planting using destructive harvests supported by non-destructive surveys of a further 902 palms. Peat s ...[more]