Data supporting "The socioecological benefits and consequences of oil palm cultivation in its native range: The Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project"

Data associated with the publication "The socioecological benefits and consequences of oil palm cultivation in its native range: The Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project", which has been accepted for publication in "Science of the Total Environment." There are two datasets. First, findings from a systematic review of oil palm-related research in an African context. Second, field-based findings from a large-scale, field-based project in Liberia (the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa, 'SOPWA', Project), focussed on differences between forest and traditionally- and industrially-managed oil palm systems. SOPWA Project data include plot-based data on soil temperature (collected using iButton dataloggers), ground vegetation cover (collected using eye estimates), and canopy cover (collected using in-field photographs and subsequent processing using Adobe Photoshop). Data were analysed in R using varying statistical methods (GLMMs, GAMMs) and visualisation techniques.

M.D.P. thanks and acknowledges funding from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC), BBSRC Impact Acceleration Account (BB/S506710/1), St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, Varley Gradwell Travelling Fellowship in Insect Ecology (University of Oxford), Johanna Darlington Trust Fund, Cambridge Philosophical Society, and from Jesus College Oxford (through R.R.). M.D.P and B.F. thank and acknowledge funding from the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund. C.A.M.M. thanks and acknowledges funding from King’s College Cambridge. A.F.P. received financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No. 854248 (TROPIBIO) and from Jesus College Oxford (through R.R.). Collaborations between M.D.P., B.F., E.C.T., and J.D. were supported by a NERC Environmental Sciences Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund Award (NE/Y003136/1), and J.D. received further funding from the NERC National Capability Science: International Award “Options for Net Zero Plus and Climate Change Adaptation” (NE/X006247/1). M.T.H. was funded by NERC C-CLEAR Research Experience Placement (REP) funding while working on this project.