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Diversity and Abundance of Cerambycid Beetles in the Four Major Land-use Types Found in Jambi Province, Indonesia

open access: yesHayati Journal of Biosciences, 2016
Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) have an important function in the ecosystem, i.e. bioindicators, saproxylic, pollinators, and as food of other organisms.
Fahri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A study of the health profile of rubber plantation workers in rural Kerala

open access: yesAsian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: The state of Kerala produces nearly 90% of India’s natural rubber output. Rubber plantation workers are vulnerable to a variety of health hazards and being in the unorganized sector, do not enjoy the benefits that their counterparts in ...
Tapas Sadasivan Nair
doaj   +1 more source

Malaria-associated rubber plantations in Thailand

open access: yesTravel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2013
Rubber forestry is intentionally used as a land management strategy. The propagation of rubber plantations in tropic and subtropic regions appears to influence the economical, sociological and ecological aspects of sustainable development as well as human well-being and health.
Adisak, Bhumiratana   +4 more
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Developing Multi-Source Indices to Discriminate between Native Tropical Forests, Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations in Indonesia

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Over the last 18 years, Indonesia has experienced significant deforestation due to the expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations. Accurate land cover maps are essential for policymakers to track and manage land change to support sustainable forest ...
Inggit Lolita Sari   +3 more
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Patterns and causes of conversion of smallholder rubber plantation to oil palm (case in Batik Nau sub district, Bengkulu Utara Regency) [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Batik Nau Subdistrict has the largest rubber plantation in North Bengkulu Regency, namely 3,779 hectares, but much of it has been converted to oil palm plantation. The conversion occurred quite massively, namely 393 hectares or 10.4 percent in 2019. This
Afrizon   +5 more
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PINK DISEASE OF PLANTATION RUBBER. [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Applied Biology, 1915
SUMMARY The distribution, hosts, and mode of action of Pink Disease are described and its importance as a disease of plantation rubber is emphasised. The various forms of Corticium salmonicolor are described. It is pointed out that the fungus is not a typical Corticium and that the pink incrustation is very frequently sterile.
F. T. BROOKS, A. SHARPLES
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Food Preferences of the Rubber Plantation Litter Beetle,Luprops tristis, a Nuisance Pest in Rubber Tree Plantations [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Insect Science, 2009
Massive invasion of the litter dwelling beetle, Luprops tristis Fabricius (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), numbering about 0.5 to 4 million per residential building following summer showers, and their prolonged stay in a state of dormancy, make them an extreme nuisance in rubber tree plantation belts of the Western Ghats in south India.
Sabu, Thomas K., Vinod, K.V.
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Smallholder Rubber Farming based Agro-tourism: Potential, Attitude and Challenges in Sri Lanka-A Case Study in Moneragala District

open access: yesJournal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 2022
This study was carried out to assess the possibilities of the Rubber Farming based Agro-Tourism (RFAT) in the smallholder rubber sector in Moneregala. The study covered 222 rubber smallholdings in eight rubber growing DS divisions and was conducted in ...
P.K.K.S. Gunarathne   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in Nutrient Contents of Soil across Different Land Uses in a Forest Reserve

open access: yesNotulae Scientia Biologicae, 2017
In order to assess the changes in soil chemical properties’ resulting from conversion of forest to other agricultural land uses a study was conducted in Okomu Forest Reserve (Nigeria).
Oludare Oladipo AGBOOLA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Textural Features in Remote Sensed Data on Rubber Plantation Extraction at Different Levels of Spatial Resolution

open access: yes, 2020
The expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations has been a critical driver for the rapid transformation of tropical forests, especially in Thailand.
Chenchen Zhang   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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