Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White +3 more
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Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
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Rural Craftsmanship, Employment Creation and Poverty Alleviation: The Case of the Bamboo Craftsmanship in Bangladesh [PDF]
: More than 30 percent of total population in Bangladesh is extremely poor. Halving the existing poverty level as per the millennium development goals of the UN by 2015 is the major challenge of the country.
Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul +2 more
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Heterogeneous light environments induce plasticity in leaf morphology and photosynthesis of two sympodial bamboo species. [PDF]
Front Plant SciDeng X +5 more
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LeafFit: Plant Assets Creation from 3D Gaussian Splatting
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract We propose LeafFit, a pipeline that converts 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) of individual plants into editable, instanced mesh assets. While 3DGS faithfully captures complex foliage, its high memory footprint and lack of mesh topology make it incompatible with traditional game production workflows. We address this by leveraging the repetition of
Chang Luo, Nobuyuki Umetani
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Validation of the Weibull-derived Gini coefficient for quantifying the inequality of the aboveground biomass distribution using 2815 culms from 50 bamboo species. [PDF]
Front Plant SciGu W +4 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We situate this article from/with/in the Necrocene, a geological period marked by the systematic production of human and more‐than‐human death to an extent that ecological destruction, extinction, loss and harm have become a structural feature of modern life.
Charlotte Hankin, Hannah Hogarth
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Distribution Patterns of Bitterness and Astringency Compounds in Different Tissues and Developmental Stages of Three Sympodial Bamboo Species. [PDF]
FoodsLi Y +7 more
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Urban community gardens showed a high wild bee diversity with 168 recorded species, representing roughly 30% of Germany's wild bees, including threatened species like Osmia mitis and Coelioxys lanceolata. Floral resources, not nesting resources or habitat availability, were the main drivers for wild bee taxonomic and functional diversity.
Astrid E. Neumann +8 more
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