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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
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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
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Rubber Plantations of the Middle East

Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 1932
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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The Problem of Crude Rubber

, 1940
In recent years, rubber manufacturers have made tremendous progress in compounding and in methods of manufacture, yet they continue, as they always have done, to regard smoked sheet and crepe from the plantations as the essential raw material of their ...
A. Thomas
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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
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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
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The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

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, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
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OBSERVATIONS ON SOME DISEASES OF PLANTATION RUBBER IN MALAYA [PDF]

Annals of Applied Biology, 1916
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