Southeast Asia was almost entirely covered by rainforest 8,000years ago. Today, this region is experiencing the highest relative rates of deforestation and forest degradation in the humid tropics. Every year, millions of hectares of tropical forests are destroyed and degraded. Given the rapid rate...
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1. Oil Palm Plantations The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has led deforestation to skyrocket in Malaysia and Indonesia. In fact, oil palm agriculture acts as the leading threat to biodiversity across Southeast Asia Palm oil is an ingredient in numerous products from foods to cosmetics, ...
SoutheastAsiaand that the community lived in a rainforest environment. As orangutans and modern humans are unrecorded from older faunal strata, one can therefore conclude that they are immigrants from the mainland (Van den Bergh et al., 2001). Therefore, this rainforest faunal association ...
Southeast Asia tropical rainforest ecosystem is one of Asia's rainforest biome, but is not as well known for its important role in sustaining the global climatic system as compared to other rainforest biomes in Central America and Africa. Instead, it is a valuable source of raw materials need...
Savannahs retreated by the Late Pleistocene and had completely disappeared by the Holocene epoch, when they were replaced by highly stratified closed-canopy rainforest. This resulted in the ascendency of rainforest-adapted species as well as Homo sapiens—which has a unique adaptive plasticity among ...
Rainforestcoversapproximately59percentofthecountry Indonesiahasthethirdlargestrainforestintheworld(afterBrazilandtheDemocraticRepublicofCongo,formerlyZaire).Itisnowthelargestproducerofplywoodintheworld,producingabout80percentofthetropicalplywoodsoldintheglobalmarket.EconomyinIndonesia Theworld’slargestproducerofplywood,...
the Malaysian Borneo sites contain wet evergreen lowland and upland dipterocarp tropical rainforest. We surveyed three logging concessions that form a contiguous forest block: Deramakot FR, Tangkulap-Sungai Talibu FR, and Northern Kuamut FR. The concessions have been subjected to varying levels of...
A 50-m Forest Cover Map in Southeast Asia from ALOS/PALSAR and Its Application on Forest Fragmentation Assessment Southeast Asia experienced higher rates of deforestation than other continents in the 1990s and still was a hotspot of forest change in the 2000s. Biodiver... J Dong,X Xiao,S Sa...