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Soil Health Impacts of Rubber Farming: The Implication of Conversion of Degraded Natural Forests into Monoculture Plantations

open access: yesAgriculture, 2020
High revenues from rubber latex exports have led to a rapid expansion of commercial rubber cultivation and, as a consequence, the conversion of different land use types (e.g., natural forests) into rubber plantations, which may lead to a decrease in soil
Thu Thi Nguyen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Airborne Laser Scanning to Characterize Land-Use Systems in a Tropical Landscape Based on Vegetation Structural Metrics

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Many Indonesian forests have been cleared and replaced by fast-growing cash crops (e.g., oil palm and rubber plantations), altering the vegetation structure of entire regions.
Nicolò Camarretta   +8 more
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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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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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Expansion dynamics of deciduous rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, China during 2000–2010

open access: yesGIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018
Monoculture rubber plantations have been replacing tropical rain forests substantially in Southern China and Southeast Asia over the past several decades, which have affected human wellbeing and ecosystem services.
Weili Kou   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Short-Term Evapotranspiration Forecasting of Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) Plantations in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

open access: yesAgronomy, 2023
Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations have high water consumption through evapotranspiration, which can contribute to water scarcity. In addition, there is a lack of spatial observation data and estimation methods for evapotranspiration (ET) for rubber
Zhen Ling   +5 more
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Implementing a New Rubber Plant Functional Type in the Community Land Model (CLM5) Improves Accuracy of Carbon and Water Flux Estimation

open access: yesLand, 2022
Rubber plantations are an economically viable land-use type that occupies large swathes of land in Southeast Asia that have undergone conversion from native forest to intensive plantation forestry.
Ashehad A. Ali   +23 more
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Sentinel-2 red-edge spectral indices (RESI) suitability for mapping rubber boom in Luang Namtha Province, northern Lao PDR

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2020
Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) tree cultivation is being continuously expanded northward by replacing evergreen forests and swidden-related regenerated vegetation across the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), e.g., Laos, a landlocked mountainous ...
Chiwei Xiao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) Biomass, Nutrient Content, and Heating Values in Southern Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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Hytönen, Jyrki   +3 more
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