Strong international demand for natural rubber is driving expansion of industrial‐scale and
smallholder monoculture plantations, with> 2 million ha established during the last decade …

Expanding global and regional markets are driving the conversion of traditional subsistence
agricultural and occupied non-agricultural lands to commercial-agricultural purposes. In …

Southeast Asia is a hotspot of tropical deforestation for agriculture. Most of the deforestation
is thought to occur in lowland forests, whereas the region's mountainous highlands undergo …

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth
century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as …

Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land
Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) are currently operational for routine Earth …

The rubber tree is native to the humid tropics and has traditionally been cropped in the
equatorial zone between 10° N and 10° S; in mainland Southeast Asia this includes portions …

Global economic change and policy interventions are driving transitions from long-fallow
swidden (LFS) systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia's uplands. This study …

Forest-to-rubber plantation conversion is an important land-use change in the tropical
region, for which the impacts on soil carbon stocks have hardly been studied. In montane …

Our review of biomass studies conducted for 11 Southeast Asian countries, Papua New
Guinea, and southern China uncovered 402 above-ground and 138 below-ground biomass …

Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in
Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is …