We are currently writing a paper on land use changes and CO2 emissions by oil palm in Mesoamerica (two sites in Mexico and one site in Guatemala). We would like to link these results to findings from the rest of the region or the continent. In Central America, we have found so far only results in Spanish for Guatemala and a bachelor thesis for a specific region in Honduras. We are interested in all kinds of publications or reports in any language derived from remote sensing or local surveys. Thanks in advance.
Not for Americas. Couriously I was reading about this a few weeks ago. This is the only thesis I know focusing o palm oil plantation and remote sensing: http://www.itc.nl/library/Papers_2012/msc/nrm/nooni.pdf
Thanks for the reply, we will take this document into account!
I know a specialist in oil palm, Dr. Mauricio Mosquera, PhD by UF.
Look at:
http://co.linkedin.com/pub/mauricio-mosquera-montoya/5b/7a1/878
I am aware of one publication for Colombia:
(Castiblanco et al 2013) Oil palm plantations in Colombia: a model of future expansion
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290111300004X
Dear Haider,
thanks for the docs, particularly the second is really useful.
Thanks,
Antonio
Dear Colleague,
You might find it useful to compare your computations with national-level estimates made by FAO for every country in the world, in relation to GHG emissions from drained organic soils. While drainage of organic soils is linked to different types of cultivation, in the areas of your interest the link with palm oil plantation is fairly robust.
You can begin consulting estimates of CO2 and N2O emissions here:
http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/browse/G1/GV/E
you can also check emissions from degraded peats on the land use part of the database--also in part linked to land use change for palm oil.
If this is of interest, you could contact us for access to the more detailed GIS-based info underlying the national-level numbers.
Best,
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