{"id":497585,"date":"2024-01-26T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=497585"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:20","slug":"oil-palm-advances-in-para","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/oil-palm-advances-in-para\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil palm advances in Par\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil palm (<em>Elaeis guineensis<\/em>) producers failed to meet the government target set 10 years ago to reduce the area of degraded land and allow the recovery of native vegetation in the Amazon. After examining the forms of land use in a 765.65-square-kilometers (km<sup>2<\/sup>) area of a river basin in the Tome-A\u00e7u region of Par\u00e1, researchers from the Em\u00edlio Goeldi Museum of Par\u00e1 (MPEG) and the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) found that between 2002 and 2018, the area occupied by primary forest shrank by approximately 50% to 140.7 km<sup>2<\/sup>, and that the area of secondary forest almost doubled to 156.6 km<sup>2<\/sup>. Since oil palm expansion began in 2010, it has expanded 27-fold, occupying 91.8 km<sup>2<\/sup> in 2018. In a 16-year period, it took over almost half (48%) of the primary forest area, which had already been deforested and previously occupied by pastures and secondary forest. \u201cThe law considers oil palm a low-impact species that is important to the restoration of degraded areas, since it grows well in unproductive soils with little fertilization, but in large-scale plantations, it can harm biodiversity conservation and social dynamics,\u201d says Ima Vieira, an ecologist from MPEG (<em>Biological Conservation<\/em>, July; <em>Plant Ecology and Diversity<\/em>, February 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large oil palm (<em>Elaeis guineensis<\/em>) plantations can harm biodiversity","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":497501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-497585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497586,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497585\/revisions\/497586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=497585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}