CONSERVATION POLICIES FOR AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY : A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LAWS AND POLICIES / by Lekha Laxman, author 395498, Abdul Haseeb Ansari, author 656381

“…Conservation Policies for Agricultural A Comparative Study of Laws and Policies focuses on the challenge of securing the ecological future of the planet and its inhabitants by exploring the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and WTO laws, such as SPSS, TBT GATT. …”

Dual chamber solar dryers: Maximizing thermal performance for diverse product drying by Prabhu, C. Naveen, Dhanushkodi, S., Sudhakar, K.

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Characteristics of religious diversity in mid-nineteenth century Warwickshire: a study of the 1851 religious census by Geary, F

“…Warwickshire can be considered as a microcosm of England as a whole, with its mixture of rural and urban landscapes and agricultural and industrial employment. This study attempts to investigate how far the Religious Census helps to illustrate the nature and extent of religious diversity.…”

Rehabilitating coastal agriculture and aquaculture after inundation events : spatial analysis of livelihood recovery in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia by Daly, Patrick, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Hundlani, Divya, Ho, Ezra, Mahdi, Saiful

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Response of invertebrate communities to intensive management of improved pasture ecosystems by Manning, P

“…My work explores agricultural intensification within the context of pasture-based cattle production. …”

Diversity of Wild Gingers (Zingiberaceae) in Southern Peninsular Malaysia: Panti Forest Reserve and Labis Forest Reserve by Sedek, Aimi Syazana, Mohamad, Salasiah, Abd-Aziz, Nazrin, Hidayat Sarjuni, Mohd. Nadzreen, Hadzuha, Nurul Hidayah, Abd Hakim, Ahmad Meisery

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Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats by Drinkwater, Rosie, Jucker, Tommaso, Potter, Joshua H. T., Swinfield, Tom, Coomes, David A., Slade, Eleanor M., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Lewis, Owen T., Bernard, Henry, Struebig, Matthew J., Clare, Elizabeth L., Rossiter, Stephen J.

“…The application of metabarcoding to environmental and invertebrate-derived DNA (eDNA and iDNA) is a new and increasingly applied method for monitoring biodiversity across a diverse range of habitats. This approach is particularly promising for sampling in the biodiverse humid tropics, where rapid land-use change for agriculture means there is a growing need to understand the conservation value of the remaining mosaic and degraded landscapes. …”
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Harnessing agricultural waste – from disposal dilemma to wealth creation and sustainable solutions towards uavs airframe manufacturing – a review by Farah Syazwani, Shahar, Mohamed Thariq, Hameed Sultan, Andrzej, Łukaszewicz, Rafał, Grzejda, Zbigniew, Oksiuta, Grzegorz, Skorulski, Renga Rao, Krishnamoorthy

“…The escalating global population and subsequent demand for agricultural products have led to a surge in agricultural waste generation, posing significant disposal challenges. …”
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Low genetic diversity of vector-borne haemoparasites in dogs and their ticks revealed local and long-range transmission in Peninsular Malaysia by Sipin, Quincie, Mustaffa-Kamal, Farina, Watanabe, Malaika, Megat Abdul Rani, Puteri Azaziah, Abdul Aziz, Nor Azlina

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Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal by Maciel, Rafaella, Braga, Rodrigo Fagundes, Carvalho, Raquel L. L., Louzada, Julio, Slade, Eleanor M.

“…The replacement of natural systems with agricultural lands is the main factor resulting in land use change in tropical regions. …”
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The sustainable use of species-rich grasslands for forage and biogas production by French, K

“…Through soil metagenomic analysis I found that while bacterial diversity does not decline with agricultural intensification, fungal diversity decreases and plant, human and livestock microbial pathogens shown to be pathogenic in other ecosystems dramatically increase on agriculturally improved fields compared to species-rich grasslands. …”

Rapid construction of green nanopesticide delivery systems using sophorolipids as surfactants by flash nanoprecipitation by Ma, Enguang, Chen, Kai, Sun, Liang, Fu, Zhinan, Guo, Jiangtao, Liu, Jichang, Zhao, Jigang, Liu, Zhiyong, Lei, Zhigang, Li, Li, Hu, Xiao, Guo, Xuhong

“…Green delivery carriers of nanopesticides, like sophorolipid biosurfactants, are of great significance to reduce environmental pollution and promote sustainable agricultural development. However, the molecular diversity of an unisolated sophorolipid mixture with almost unpredictable self-assembly properties has limited the in-depth study of its structure-activity relationship and hindered the development of green pesticide delivery systems. …”
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Habitat Complexity Influencing Avian Community Structure, Conservation Management and its Implications in Malaysia by Abdul Halim, Abdul Muhaimin, Norazlimi, Nor Atiqah

“…Malaysia is one of the mega-diverse countries because it is gifted with the beauty of biodiversity. …”
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Identification of microorganisms associated with sea cucumbers in Johor coastal seawater by Solehin, Siti Najihah, Kamarudin, Kamarul Rahim, Badrulhisham, Nur Sabrina, Mohamed Rehan, Aisyah

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Multi-species rotational grazing of small ruminants regenerates undergrowth vegetation while controlling weeds in the oil palm silvopastoral system by Tohiran, Kamil Azmi, Nobilly, Frisco, Zulkifli, Raja, Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Norhisham, Ahmad Razi, Rasyidi, Md Zainal, Azhar, Badrul

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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…Agricultural expansion is one of the largest global threats to biodiversity. …”
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Grand challenges in entomology: priorities for action in the coming decades by Luke, Sarah H., Roy, Helen E., Thomas, Chris D., Tilley, Luke A. N., Ward, Simon, Watt, Allan, Carnaghi, Manuela, Jaworski, Coline C., Tercel, Maximillian P. T. G., Woodrow, Charlie, Aown, Susmita, Banfield-Zanin, Jennifer A., Barnsley, Sarah L., Berger, Iris, Brown, Mark J. F., Bull, James C., Campbell, Heather, Carter, Ruth A. B., Charalambous, Magda, Cole, Lorna J., Ebejer, Martin J., Farrow, Rachel A., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Grace, Miriam, Highet, Fiona, Hill, Jane K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kent, Eleanor S., Krell, Frank-Thorsten, Leather, Simon R., Leybourne, Daniel J., Littlewood, Nick A., Lyons, Ashley, Matthews, Graham, Mc Namara, Louise, Menéndez, Rosa, Merrett, Peter, Mohammed, Sajidha, Murchie, Archie K., Noble, Michael, Paiva, Maria-Rosa, Pannell, Michael J., Phon, Chooi-Khim, Port, Gordon, Powell, Charlotte, Rosell, Stewart, Sconce, Francisca, Shortall, Chris R., Slade, Eleanor M., Sutherland, Jamie P., Weir, Jamie C., Williams, Christopher D., Zielonka, Natalia B., Dicks, Lynn V.

“…Entomology is key to understanding terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems at a time of unprecedented anthropogenic environmental change and offers substantial untapped potential to benefit humanity in a variety of ways, from improving agricultural practices to managing vector-borne diseases and inspiring technological advances. …”
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The avocado genome informs deep angiosperm phylogeny, highlights introgressive hybridization, and reveals pathogen-influenced gene space adaptation by Rendón-Anaya, Martha, Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique, Méndez-Bravo, Alfonso, Lan, Tianying, Zheng, Chunfang, Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo, Perez-Torres, Claudia Anahí, Chacón-López, Alejandra, Hernandez-Guzmán, Gustavo, Chang, Tien-Hao, Farr, Kimberly M, Barbazuk, W Brad, Chamala, Srikar, Mutwil, Marek, Shivhare, Devendra, Alvarez-Ponce, David, Mitter, Neena, Hayward, Alice, Fletcher, Stephen, Rozas, Julio, Sánchez Gracia, Alejandro, Kuhn, David, Barrientos-Priego, Alejandro F, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Librado, Pablo, Sankoff, David, Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo, Albert, Victor A, Herrera-Estrella, Luis

“…The avocado, Persea americana, is a fruit crop of immense importance to Mexican agriculture with an increasing demand worldwide. Avocado lies in the anciently diverged magnoliid clade of angiosperms, which has a controversial phylogenetic position relative to eudicots and monocots. …”
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Synthesising graphene with renewably-sourced bio-carbon precursors: a brief review by Abd. Rahman, Farah Hannani, Amiruddin, Hilmi, Abdollah, Mohd. Fadzli, Mohd. Zulkifli, Nurin Wahidah, Samion, Syahrullail, Umehara, Nortisugu, Tanemura, Masaki, Honda, Mitsuhiro, Morina, Ardian

“…As such, this present study explores the methods of synthesising, applying, and optimising the conversion of bio-based renewable solid carbon (SC) and liquid carbon (LC) precursors derived from a diverse range of C sources; such as lignocellulosic biomass, agricultural residues, and everyday vegetable oils; into high-quality graphene. …”

Order among chaos: High throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system by Chen, MY, Fulton, LM, Huang, I, Liman, A, Hossain, SS, Hamilton, CD, Song, S, Geissmann, Q, King, KC, Haney, CH

“…Increasing the scale at which we can screen drivers of disease, such as microbiome community structure, will facilitate both disease predictions and treatments for medicine and agricultural applications.…”