Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-58

  Ahrends, Antje ^a,b   Hollingsworth, Peter M ^a,b   Ziegler, Alan D ^c   Fox, Jefferson M ^d   Chen, Huafang ^a,e   Su, Yufang ^a,e   Xu, Jianchu ^a,e  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cash crops; Deforestation; Rubber; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CASH CROPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DICOTYLEDON; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; MONOCULTURE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PREDICTION; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROTECTED AREA; RUBBER; TYPHOON; VEGETATION COVER; WATER AVAILABILITY; YIELD RESPONSE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PLANTATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TYPHOON HAIYAN 2013;

VIET NAM; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84934783084     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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