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‘Tree islands’ give oil-palm plantation a biodiversity boost

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The Effect of Cut-Down Palms on Oil Palm Yields

In the trial, you had to cut down some of the palms to make space for these tree islands. But this loss was compensated by a gain in yields of the oil palms that were directly adjacent to the islands. So in the end, at the entire plantation or the entire landscape scale, there was no loss of oil palm yields. I mean, that to me is quite surprising that these oil palm trees were more productive when they were next to a more diverse group of trees.

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