Estimating primary productivity of oil palm in Peninsular Malaysia using remote sensing and ancillary data by Tan, Kian Pang

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An assessment of national surveillance systems for malaria elimination in the Asia Pacific. by Mercado, C, Ekapirat, N, Dondorp, A, Maude, R

“…Other sources of data included by some countries were plantations, police and other security forces, sentinel surveillance sites, research or academic institutions, private laboratories and other government ministries. …”

Selective-logging and oil palm: multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade-offs for conservation planning by David P. Edwards, AINHOA MAGRACH, Paul Woodcock, YINQIU JI, NORMAN T.L. LIM, Felicity A. Edwards, TROND H. LARSEN, WAYNE W. HSU, Suzan Benedick, Chey, Vun Khen

“…Spanning a land-use gradient of primary forest, once- and twice-logged forests, and oil palm plantations, we used traditional sampling and DNA metabarcoding to compile an extensive data set in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo for nine vertebrate and invertebrate taxa to quantify the biological impacts of logging and oil palm, develop cost-effective methods of protecting biodiversity, and examine whether there is congruence in response among taxa. …”
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Ecology of smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale Perspici/Lata) in the lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysia by Leona Wai

“…Despite increasing levels of habitat loss and disturbance, and conversion of natural forest habitats to agricultural plantations in wetland areas in Borneo, very little is known about the Bornean otter species within these threatened wetland habitats in the island of Borneo. …”
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Land-use change alters the mechanisms assembling rainforest mammal communities in Borneo by Oliver R. Wearn, Chris Carbone, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Marion Pfeifer, Henry Bernard, Robert M. Ewers

“…Using concurrent camera- and live-trapping, we investigated the local-scale assembly of mammal communities along a gradient of land-use intensity (old-growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantations) in Borneo. We hypothesised that increasing land-use intensity would lead to an increasing dominance of environmental control over spatial processes in community assembly. …”
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Biodiversity characterization in Malaysia through biology and genetics. by Tan, Soon Guan

“…For example, the current widespread practice of planting the tenera type of oil palm in commercial plantations which significantly raised palm oil production was preceded by the discovery of the gene controlling the oil palm fruit shell thickness by Beirnaert and Vanderweyen in 1941 during the course of their research work in the Belgian Congo, Africa (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) (Corley and Tinker, 2003.).Hence, fundamental biological research is important and needs to continue to be supported with adequate and meaningful funding so that Malaysia’s rich biological resources can be well characterized and understood. …”
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Effects of Machinery Compaction of Bernam Series Soil (Typic Endoaquepts) on Soil Properties and Oil Palm Performance by Yahya, Zuraidah

“…Mechanization was introduced to the oil palm plantations to overcome labor shortage and to improve production efficiency. …”
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Bonding with natural fibres by Md. Tahir, Paridah

“…All plant fibre residues from the forests, plantations/ estates and processing mills are regarded as plant biomass. …”
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Antioxidants from Malaysian agarwood (Aquilaria spp.) leaf extracts and their applications in in vitro model and food system by Tay, Pei Yin

“…These are by-products from agarwood plantations and are usually discarded during the cultivation of agarwood trees. …”
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Efficacy of Various Local Honey For The Treatment Of Burn Wounds by Mohd Zohdi, Rozaini

“…Imported Manuka honey as well as four selected local honeys collected from different plantations namely nenas, gelam, durian and kelapa were applied twice daily in a quantity of 0.5 ml for each application. …”
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Phenotypic, molecular and mating type analyses of Exserohilum rostratum associated with leaf spots of rice by Kusai, Nor Azizah

“…During a series of sampling in March to August 2013, leaf spot is one of common symptoms found in rice plantations in Malaysia. The objectives of this study were to identify fungi isolated from leaf spot of rice based on phenotypic and molecular approaches, to determine whether or not E. rostratum isolates were pathogenic, to analyze the mating type of E. rostratum using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and to examine the sexual development of E. rostratum isolates. …”
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Crown counting and mapping of missing oil palm tree using airborne imaging system by Kee, Ya Wern

“…In Malaysia, there are plenty of large-scale oil palm plantations, but the counting of oil palm trees and missing trees processes are still manually done which is time consuming and costly. …”
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Biological pretreatment of oil palm empty fruit bunch by a local isolate of Schizophyllum commune ENN1 for production of fermentable sugars by Arbaain, Enis Natasha Noor

“…In line with the expansion of the industry, oil palm biomass is generated abundantly from the plantations and mills. Oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) is the most abundant lignocellulosic biomass generated from palm oil mill, composed of 25-44% cellulose, 25-28% hemicellulose and 19- 27% lignin. …”
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Machine learning classification of macronutrient levels in oil palm trees with Landsat-8 imagery by Kok, Zhi Hong

“…Unfortunately, current nutrient monitoring methods for better fertilizer management are inefficient, desctructive and only adoptable for industrial plantations. This suggests the need for a more conventional and efficient approach for fertilizer management. …”
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Orange spotting, potassium content and vertical transmission of coconut cadang-cadang viroid variants in oil palm by Sulaiman, Roslina

“…However, with greatly increasing acreages in oil palm plantations, certain diseases and various seedling diseases became prominent. …”
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Characterization and pathogenicity of Bacillus pumilus isolated from trunk bulges of RRIM 3001 superclone rubber trees in Peninsular Malaysia by Mazlan, Safwan

“…Trunk bulges are one of the most important diseases in rubber plantations especially in RRIM 3001 superclone. This study provides information that the causal pathogen responsible for the development of trunk bulges in rubber tree is Bacillus pumilus (B. pumilus) through isolation, identification, characterization and pathogenicity test. …”
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Ecology and morphology of household ant, Paratrechina longicornis (LATREILLE, 1802) In South Eastern of Johor by Mohd Yusof, Shabanun Salwa

“…Paratrechina longicornis is an invasive ant which may act as a predator upon pest species in plantations and agriculture farms. In spite of that, this cosmopolitan ant species is also a pest in houses (Fox et al, 2007) and was discovered as a mechanical camer of pathogenic microorganisms in hospital environment in Brazil (Moreira et al., 2005). …”
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Optimal synthesis of oil palm eco-industrial town by Mohamad Shukery, Mohamad Firdza

“…Current oil palm industry practices produce millions of tons of oil palm biomass as bio-waste at plantations and mills. Untreated biomass waste leads to environmental problems such as waterways contamination and carbon dioxide emission (CO2). …”
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Impact of regional haze towards air quality in Malaysia: A review by Latif, Mohd. Talib, Othman, Murnira, Idris, Nurfathehah, Juneng, Liew, Abdullah, Ahmad Makmom, Hamzah, Wan Portia, Khan, Firoz, Nik Sulaiman, Nik Meriam, Jewaratnam, J., Aghamohammadi, Nasrin, Sahani, Mazrura, Xiang, Chung Jing, Ahamad, Fatimah, Amil, Norhaniza, Darus, Mashitah, Varkkey, Helena, Tangang, Fredolin, Jaafar, Abu Bakar

“…“Slash and burn” agricultural activities, deforestation and oil palm plantations on peat areas, particularly in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia were identified as the contributing factors to high intensity combustions that results in transboundary haze in Malaysia. …”

Remote sensing to study mangrove fragmentation and its impacts on leaf area index and gross primary productivity in the south of Peninsular Malaysia by Kanniah, Kasturi Devi, Kang, Chuen Siang, Sharma, Sahadev, Amir, A. Aldrie

“…The causes of mangrove loss were identified as land conversion to urban, plantations, and aquaculture activities, where large mangrove areas were shat-tered into many smaller patches. …”
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