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After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests
Coconut palms now represent over half of the tree cover on these low islands, confining formerly widespread native broadleaf trees to small fractions of their natural range. "That's a problem ...
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Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study
The maps showed that coconut palms covered 58.3% of the islands’ tree cover, surpassing native broadleaf trees in terms of canopy area. The study found that 51.2% of the coconut canopies occur ...