Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies

DQ Fuller, T Denham, R Allaby - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

Orangutans venture out of the rainforest and into the Anthropocene

SN Spehar, D Sheil, T Harrison, J Louys… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine
a taxon's vulnerability. Recognizing how interactions with humans have shaped taxa such …

Drought analysis based on standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index and standardized precipitation index in Sarawak, Malaysia

I Isia, T Hadibarata, MNH Jusoh, RK Bhattacharjya… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drought analysis via the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardized
Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is necessary for effective water resource …

Identifying Factors to Develop and Validate Social Vulnerability to Floods in Malaysia: A Systematic Review Study

I Isia, T Hadibarata, MNH Jusoh, RK Bhattacharjya… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Flood disasters, a natural hazard throughout human history, have caused significant
damage to human safety and infrastructure. This paper presents a systematic study using …

The 'cultured rainforests' of Borneo

G Barker, C Hunt, H Barton, C Gosden, S Jones… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Borneo has a 50,000-year record of Homo sapiens' interactions with rainforest on
the coastal lowlands assembled especially by the interdisciplinary investigation of the …

Vegecultures and the social–biological transformations of plants and people

H Barton, T Denham - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
The social entanglements of vegetative reproduction are considered for three neighbouring
tropical regions that are often considered to exhibit very different histories of plant …

The geoarchaeology of hominin dispersals to and from tropical Southeast Asia: A review and prognosis

MW Morley - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Tropical Southeast Asia is a critically important region for addressing the major
questions and grand challenges that concern us today regarding Late Pleistocene hominin …

Diet reconstructed from an analysis of plant microfossils in human dental calculus from the Bronze Age site of Shilinggang, southwestern China

N Zhang, G Dong, X Yang, X Zuo, L Kang, L Ren… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The extracted microfossils from the dental calculus of ancient teeth are a new form of
archaeological evidence which can provide direct information on the plant diet of a …

Linking plant traits to ecosystem service provision through a management gradient in a tropical dry forest

G Sellan, WWMAB Medawatte, SMW Ranwala… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The exploitation of pristine forests decreases their functional diversity and ecosystem service
provision. The forest management strategies of some rural societies, though, can increase …

Nature's contributions to people in the context of a changing traditional rice cultivation landscape in the Upper Baram, Malaysia

A Hollaus, C Schunko, R Weisshaidinger… - … -Danish Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Traditional rice agroecosystems face socioeconomic, political, technical and environmental
challenges that are resulting in changes in the traditional land use and management system …