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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Developing indicators of economic value and biodiversity loss for rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, southwest China: A case study from Menglun township
Ecological Indicators, Volume 36, Year 2014
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In Xishuangbanna, southwest China, rubber plantations are lucrative and have expanded dramatically in the past two decades, leaving little natural forest. The local government hopes to use eco-compensation mechanisms to promote forest restoration without forcing smallholders to forego profits. Based on a landscape productivity model for two management systems and given a range of prices, we assessed the feasibility of this concept by constructing a spatially explicit map of net present value (NPV) of rubber plantations. We found that roughly 7% of existing plantations generally had negative NPV, therefore opportunity costs would be negligible. But to restore forest in buffer zones along roads and rivers as recommended by the state government, more substantial opportunity costs were observed because these areas have high NPV values. Additionally, plantations situated above 900 m elevation or on slopes > 24 were not profitable and a conversion ban should be enforced. Opportunity costs and plant species biodiversity are positively correlated, so any policy to protect species-rich areas must take this relationship into consideration. Eco-compensation schemes can feasibly promote forest restoration on marginal lands and spatially-explicit mapping of NPV can provide monetary targets to adequately recover opportunity costs for smallholders. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Yi, Zhuangfang
China, Mengla
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
China, Beijing
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kenya, Nairobi
World Agroforestry Centre
Cannon, Charles H.
China, Mengla
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
United States, Lubbock
Texas Tech University
Chen, Jin
China, Mengla
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ye, Chengxi
China, Mengla
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
Swetnam, Ruth D.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Statistics
Citations: 120
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.03.016
ISSN:
1470160X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Case Study
Study Approach
Qualitative