Residing atop the trophic ladder, the jaguar plays a crucial role in the functioning, stability, and resilience of neotropical forest ecosystems. They influence the entire food web and have wide-ranging effects on various ecological processes. However, jaguars are a highly at-risk and near-threatened …

Forest inventories serve as a primary source for above-ground biomass and carbon stock estimations. These inventories, however, are costly and time-consuming especially over large areas with difficult terrain. Multiple remote sensing techniques can facilitate forest inventories with above-ground biomass …

Dit is een deel van een artikel uit Publiek Denken van 19 oktober 2021. Mensen hebben de mond vol van moraal, maar de praktijk is weerbarstig. Zeker in topposities in het bedrijfsleven en de publieke sector moet je soms vuile handen maken. Toch is het de vraag of wij in Nederland wel kritisch genoeg …

A study was conducted on the litchi value chain to analyse the factors affecting postharvest loss in Dinajpur, Bangladesh to suggest the Department of Horticulture possible recommendation. This study was remotely conducted online due to the COVID-19 situation during the research period and with the help …

This research assessed consumers’ attitudes towards sustainable and organic shea butter in Nigeria to provide recommendations that contribute to the financial sustainability of the Oke-Ogun Shea Butter of Oyo state, Nigeria.

Tropical deforestation is one of the main causes for habitat destruction and fragmentation for bird communities worldwide, but Costa Rica is one of the few countries where forest cover increased. Biodiversity in Costa Rica is astonishing, especially in the isolated cloud forests of the ecoregion ‘Talamancan …

Scleractinische koralen met endosymbiotisch Symbiodinium zijn de dominante soort van tropische koraalriffen. Deze koraalriffen vormen de habitat voor ongeveer 25% van de mariene soorten op Aarde. Ook voor de mens zijn koraalriffen van groot belang voor voedsel, toerisme en voor de economie. De laatste …

Rwandan passion fruit has become one of the sources of income for producers and the country at large. However, the passion fruit sub-sector development is hindered by insufficient quantity for export due to thepoor quality of produced passion fruits. The study aims to identify causes that affect the …

Anancus arvernensis, een Europese mastodont, is een slurfdrager die gevonden wordt op fossielen vindplaatsen door heel Europa. Tussen de vondsten van Anancus zitten molaren. In dit onderzoek worden molaren uit de Oosterschelde en Dorkovo met elkaar vergeleken. Beide vindplaatsen hebben een andere geologische …

The project, during the second phase of the geospatial assessment of the forest resources of Sarawak, anticipates working on the inventory of biomass and carbons stocks in the permanent forest estate (PFE) of Sarawak and some selected forest management units (FMUs), as well as Sarawak’s totally protected …