Small room for compromise between oil palm cultivation and primate conservation in Africa.

ABSTRACT: 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 suitability and current land use with primate distribution, diversity, and vulnerability. We also quantified the potential impact of large-scale oil palm cultivation on primates in terms of range loss under different expansion scenarios taking into account future demand, oil palm suitability, human acces

SUBMITTER: Strona G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature