Lecture 9 - Expansion of Oil Palm

Question 1

What was the increase in oil palm area between 1999-2008?

Answer 1

56% increase in area

Question 2

What was the Mha expansion of oil palm between 2001-2011?

Answer 2

5.5 Mha expansion

Question 3

What is the ‘deforestation capital’

Answer 3

SE Asia - Indonesia

Question 4

What was most oil palm expansion at the expense of?

Answer 4

Most expansion at cost of primary and selectively logged tropical forest.

Question 5

What’s the future demand for palm oil?

Answer 5

+60m tons

Question 6

Does oil palm drive loss of C

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

What does science say about oil palm expansion?

Answer 7

It releases C -_-

Question 8

What t/ha of C does a dry dipterocarp forest ‘reduce’?

Answer 8

-163 t/ha

Question 9

What t/ha of C does a peatswamp forest ‘reduce’?

Answer 9

-1450/tha

Question 10

How long does C reduction take to surpass dry dipterocarp forest C storage?

Answer 10

75-90yrs

Question 11

How long does C reduction take to surpass peatswmap forest C storage?

Answer 11

600 yrs

Question 12

How does Palm Oil affect species loss?

Answer 12

It increases it massively

Question 13

What is functional diversity?

Answer 13

FD quantifies the range and abundance of functional roles played by species within a community.

Functional roles = functional niches

Question 14

What is functional richness?

Answer 14

The volume of a functional trait space occupied by a set of species.

Question 15

What does FD/FRic = Ecosystem services mean

Answer 15

It means the provision of a natural resource or process that is valued by humankind

Question 16

What does oil palm do to functional richness?

Answer 16

SEVERELY REDUCES IT

Question 17

What did Edwards et al find about Ibis?

Answer 17

Caused loss of bark cleaners and arrival of water-related species.

Question 18

What did Edwards find out about dung beetles?

Answer 18

An absence of rollers, less diet generalist species while more small species.