Conversion of lowland tropical forests to tree cash crop plantations loses up to one-half of stored soil organic carbon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 9956-9960

  Van Straaten, Oliver ^a   Corre, Marife D ^a   Wolf, Katrin ^a,e   Tchienkoua, Martin ^b   Cuellar, Eloy ^c   Matthews, Robin B ^d   Veldkamp, Edzo ^a   Vitousek, Peter M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement Wakwa   (Cameroon)

^c National Institute for Agricultural Innovation INIA   (Peru)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Atmosfair gGmbH   (Germany)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cacao; Land use change; Oil palm; Rubber; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; CARBON; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL;

AGROFORESTRY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CACAO; CAMEROON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; INDONESIA; LAND USE; PERU; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WEATHERING; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ELAEIS; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84938936768     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504628112     Document Type: Article

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