Management, yield, soil and vegetation data for oil palm smallholder farms in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019

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• Last updated: 03 May 2023
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This dataset details information collected from smallholder oil palm farms in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Including: management practices, oil palm fruit yield, understorey vegetation, and soil chemical properties (SOC, total N, total P and available P). We collected data between August to November 2019 from 40 smallholdings (defined as farms < 50 ha) across six governance areas in Sabah. We used responses from face-to-face questionnaires to collect information about their management practices, including Best Management Practices (BMPs), and reported Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) yields. We also carried out field surveys on these farms to quantify vegetation cover and soil chemical properties. All smallholder farms had mature fruiting trees i.e. > 8 years since planting. The project received ethical approval from the Biology Ethics Committee, University of York (Ref. SGA201906), and permission from the Sabah Biodiversity Council (Ref. JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JLD.8), Danum Valley Management Committee (Ref. YS/DVMC/2019/27), and South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (project number 18033) for permission to conduct our research in Sabah, Malaysia. This work was funded by the NERC iCASE studentship (NE/R007624/1) and Proforest. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-05-02T07:35:43
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S.Y., Howells, T.R., Bin Sailim, A., McClean, C.J., Senior, M.J.M., Benedick, S., Hill, J.K., Azmi, R. (2022). Management, yield, soil and vegetation data for oil palm smallholder farms in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466
• Harvest GUID: 38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466
• Extent: Latitude: 9.102° to 2.372°
• Extent: Longitude: 112.939° to 120.762°
• Dataset reference date: 2022-09-06 (publication)
• Responsible party: University of York (author, pointOfContact, owner); Unaffiliated (author); South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (author); Proforest (author); Universiti Malaysia Sabah (author); WildAsia (author); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian, publisher)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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