More than 90% of the global natural rubber production originates from monoculture
plantations in tropical Asia, especially from countries forming the Greater Mekong Subregion …

Carbon (C) conservation and sequestration in many developing countries needs to be
accompanied by socio-economic improvements. Tree crop plantations can be a potential …

Over the past decade, the cultivation of rubber trees has expanded rapidly throughout the
Mekong region to non-traditional rubber growing areas of Laos and Myanmar. Prompted by …

At the expense of irreversible biodiversity loss, industrial modern agriculture is expanding in
tropical regions. The conversion of forests to large scale monoculture plantations has …

Forest conversion to rubber plantation, along with its implications for REDD+ implementation
in Vietnam, was the theme that the “Private participation in REDD+ processes” sub-working …

We used solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to compare chemical
compositions of carbon in plant litter, forest floor and soil in a native seasonal rain forest …

Tripura is the second largest Natural Rubber (NR) producing state of India. As most of the
NR plantation in the state is rain dependent, it is observed that fluctuation in monsoon poses …

Worldwide depletion of forest resources, forest fragmentation, forest encroachment,
overgrazing, unscientific and over-exploitation of biodiversity and unscientific agricultural …

Over the past decade, rubber cultivation has expanded throughout the Mekong region, from
established centers of production in Thailand, China and Vietnam to new sites in Laos …

Rubber plantations have expanded at an unprecedented rate in Southeast Asia in recent
decades. This has led to a substantial decline in the supply of ecosystem services (ESS) and …