38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Management, yield, soil and vegetation data for oil palm smallholder farms in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, 2019 2022-09-06 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466 10.5285/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466 doi: 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 10.5285/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466 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 Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S.Y. University of York sgak500@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3841-5864 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Howells, T.R. Unaffiliated thowells18.6@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0013-4204 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bin Sailim, A. South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership azzdvfc18@gmail.com author McClean, C.J. University of York colin.mcclean@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5457-4355 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Senior, M.J.M. Proforest Mike@proforest.net author Benedick, S. Universiti Malaysia Sabah suzanben@ums.edu.my author Hill, J.K. University of York jane.hill@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1871-7715 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Azmi, R. WildAsia rayazmi@gmail.com author Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S.Y. University of York sgak500@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3841-5864 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S.Y. University of York sgak500@york.ac.uk owner agriculture soil chemistry GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Sabah oil palm management practices management intensity best management practices understorey vegetation otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions 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 textTable English utf8 environment 2019-08-01 2019-11-30 112.939 120.762 2.372 9.102 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/38487932-b32a-4b15-9fda-ea812c463466.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Field surveys and questionnaires were conducted from August to November 2019, in collaboration with local field researchers and organisations in Sabah. Permission was received from the Sabah Biodiversity council to conduct our research in Sabah. Smallholder farmers were randomly selected for inclusion within the study, with assistance from a local non-for-profit organisation. We received verbal and written consent from all farmers prior to conducting any field surveys or questionnaires. Out of the 40 smallholder farms in our study, 35 farmers had RSPO certification (Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil) and 5 farmers were non-certified (farmers from the Tampenau village) at the time of sampling. Yield measurements were reported by the farmer during face-to-face questionnaires (estimated fresh fruit bunch yield of the farm per harvest or per month) and not directly measured values. Hence, they might be subjected to some degree of error and might not be an exact representation of the farm’s yield. All vegetation survey information and soil samples were collected within a 0.28-hectare circular plot using a nested plot design, one plot per farm. Soil analyses were performed by Sabah Forestry centre in March 2020.