Oil palm modelling in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT

• Main Authors: Xu, Y., Ciai, P., Le, Y., Li, W., Chen, X., Zhang, H., Chao, Y., Kanniah, K., Cracknell, A. P., Peng, G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2021
• Subjects: NA9000-9284 City planning
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95448/1/KasturiKanniah2021_OilPalmModelling.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/95448/; http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4573-2021

Oil palm is the most productive oil crop that provides ∼40% of the global vegetable oil supply, with 7% of the cultivated land devoted to oil plants. The rapid expansion of oil palm cultivation is seen as one of the major causes for deforestation emissions and threatens the conservation of rain fore...