Oil palm expansion drives avifaunal decline in the Pucallpa region of Peruvian Amazonia

Oil palm is one of the world’s most rapidly expanding crops, replacing humid forests across tropical regions. Studies examining the effect of this land conversion on biodiversity have tended to focus predominantly on Southeast Asia, where the majority of the world’s oil palm is produced. Because the...

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Main Authors: Alicia Srinivas, Lian Pin Koh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989416300087