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. 2010 May 28;107(24):11140–11144. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1000530107

Table 1.

Implications of doubling Indonesia's annual oil-palm production (increase by 80 million tons) for land use, biodiversity, carbon, and food production under each development scenario

Land uses converted (103 ha)
Scenario Oil-palm expansion (103 ha) Primary forest Secondary forest Agricultural land Degraded land Biodiversity loss (%) Net carbon loss (106 tons) Loss in annual food production capacity (106 tons)
Business-as-usual 3,097.09 ± 18.54 735.94 ± 92.5 684.38 ± 54.37 1,223.46 ± 66.47 453.31 ± 29.41 0.43 ± 0.04 278.16 ± 16.5 5.13 ± 0.26
Food production 3,181.89 ± 14.86 1,310.82 ± 48.08 767.29 ± 40.34 786.95 ± 22.61 316.83 ± 19.8 0.7 ± 0.02 366.22 ± 11.39 0 ± 0
Forest preservation 5,435.34 ± 70.59 0 ± 0 0 ± 0 0 ± 0 5,435.34 ± 70.59 0 ± 0 478.95 ± 40.44 9.97 ± 0.12
Carbon conservation 5,451.86 ± 0 178.71 ± 0 634.52 ± 0 2,527.33 ± 0 2111.3 ± 0 0.18 ± 0 −158.76 ± 0 9.78 ± 0
Hybrid approach 3,430.86 ± 3.65 0 ± 0 0 ± 0 1,601.74 ± 0 1,829.12 ± 3.65 0 ± 0 191.64 ± 5.38 1.88 ± 0

Net carbon loss was calculated as the difference between carbon loss (total biomass and peat soil carbon stocks) and carbon gain (above-ground carbon biomass in oil palm plantations). Values are mean ± SD of each outcome variable for 10,000 simulation runs.