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Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Background In the last decades, Southeast Asia has experienced massive conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm monoculture plantations. The effects of this land-use change on canopy arthropods are still largely unknown.
Amanda Mawan, Tamara R. Hartke, Louis Deharveng, Feng Zhang, Damayanti Buchori, Stefan Scheu, Jochen Drescher   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Carbon Storage of Rubber Plantations

Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Research, 2014
The study was conducted at the three Municipalities of Cotabato province Southern Philippines between January to May 2011. The study aimed at determining the Carbon budget of the different age rubber plantation through field sampling and modeling. Actual field measurement of dbh, were done for the estimation of above-below ground biomass.
For. Crissante Salibio, Esmael L. Abas, Onofre S. Corpuz   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Anthromes and terrestrial carbon

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker, Rose Z. Abramoff, Kathryn Baragwanath, Matthew E. Craig, Yadvinder Malhi, Crystal N. H. McMichael   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of evapotranspiration on ecosystem services values in rubber (Hevea brasiliensis L.) plantations: insights into climate change and rubber plantation expansion in Southwestern China

Frontiers in Agronomy
IntroductionThe rapid expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations in Southwestern China has transformed forest-dominated landscapes. However, the hydrological consequences of this land-use change have not been comprehensively quantified ...
Zhen Ling, Zhen Ling, Tiyuan Xia, Yuan Su, Guangxiong He, Shixiang Gu, Shixiang Gu, Zhenyu Zhao, Biao Chen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
wiley   +1 more source

Community Perceptions and Determinants of the Sustained Conservation of Historical Rubber Plantations in the Lomela and Lodja Territories, Sankuru Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Conservation
The drastic and historic fall in natural rubber prices has prompted many smallholders around the world to abandon rubber plantations in favor of other survival alternatives.
Maurice Kesonga Nsele, Serge Shakanye Ndjadi, Charles Mumbere Musavandalo, Désiré Numbi Mujike, Israël Muchiza Bachinyaga, John Tshomba Kalumbu, Eli Mwishingo Mutwedu, Joël Mobunda Tiko, Séraphin Irenge Murhula, François Tshamba Y’onyowokoma, Jean-Pierre Mate Mweru, Baudouin Michel   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meta-analysis of a large industrial latex diagnosis database provides insight on Hevea brasiliensis clonal adaptation and site-specific yield potential in Western Africa [PDF]

, 2019
A meta-analysis of the Latex Diagnosis (LD) database gathering all LD data stored from 2006 to 2018 in SIFCA/SIPH plantations of Côte d'Ivoire (SAPH), Ghana (GREL) and Nigeria (RENL) has been performed.
Cauchy, Thierry, Chegbene, P., Gohet, Eric, Kotochi, Clement, Lesturgez, Gregory, Njoku, Apollonia, Soumahoro, Mouman   +6 more
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret, Pim de Zwart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early identification of immature rubber plantations using Landsat and Sentinel satellite images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Early identification of rubber plantations holds significant importance for both optimal plantation management and scientific studies. Even though remote sensing techniques for mapping rubber plantations have evolved considerably since the 2000s, current
Xincheng Wang, Bangqian Chen, Jinwei Dong, Yuanfeng Gao, Guizhen Wang, Hongyan Lai, Zhixiang Wu, Chuan Yang, Weili Kou, Ting Yun   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source