Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.002

	Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods
	Ahrends,Antje; Hollingsworth,Peter M.; Ziegler,Alan D.; Fox,Jefferson M.; Chen,Huafang; Su,Yufang; Xu,Jianchu
	2015-09-01
发表期刊	GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷号	34 页码:48-58
摘要	The first decade of the new millennium saw a boom in rubber prices. This led to rapid and widespread land conversion to monoculture rubber plantations in continental SE Asia, where natural rubber production has increased >50% since 2000. Here, we analyze the subsequent spread of rubber between 2005 and 2010 in combination with environmental data and reports on rubber plantation performance. We show that rubber has been planted into increasingly sub-optimal environments. Currently, 72% of plantation area is in environmentally marginal zones where reduced yields are likely. An estimated 57% of the area is susceptible to insufficient water availability, erosion, frost, or wind damage, all of which may make long-term rubber production unsustainable. In 2013 typhoons destroyed plantations worth US$ >250 million in Vietnam alone, and future climate change is likely to lead to a net exacerbation of environmental marginality for both current and predicted future rubber plantation area. New rubber plantations are also frequently placed on lands that are important for biodiversity conservation and ecological functions. For example, between 2005 and 2010 >2500 km(2) of natural tree cover and 610 km(2) of protected areas were converted to plantations. Overall, expansion into marginal areas creates potential for loss-loss scenarios: clearing of high-biodiversity value land for economically unsustainable plantations that are poorly adapted to local conditions and alter landscape functions (e.g. hydrology, erosion) - ultimately compromising livelihoods, particularly when rubber prices fall. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Rubber South East Asia Biodiversity Cash Crops Deforestation
DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.06.002
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000361582000005
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/25152
专题	中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ahrends,Antje,Hollingsworth,Peter M.,Ziegler,Alan D.,et al. Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2015,34:48-58.
APA	Ahrends,Antje.,Hollingsworth,Peter M..,Ziegler,Alan D..,Fox,Jefferson M..,Chen,Huafang.,...&Xu,Jianchu.(2015).Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,34,48-58.
MLA	Ahrends,Antje,et al."Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 34(2015):48-58.

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