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

O. Van Straaten; M.D. Corre; K. Wolf; M. Tchienkoua; E. Cuellar; R.B. Matthews; E. Veldkamp

doi:10.1073/pnas.1504628112

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

O. Van Straaten
, M.D. Corre
, K. Wolf
, M. Tchienkoua
, E. Cuellar
, R.B. Matthews
, E. Veldkamp

Information & Computational Sciences

University of Göttingen
L’Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (Cameroon)
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária (Portugal)

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9956-9960
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	112
Issue number	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504628112
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2015

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Cacao
Land use change
Oil palm
Rubber
Soil carbon

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Van Straaten, O., Corre, M. D., Wolf, K., Tchienkoua, M., Cuellar, E., Matthews, R. B., & Veldkamp, E. (2015). 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, 112(32), 9956-9960. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504628112

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