However, in fast-growing plantations, field-based inventory programmes may not be sufficient to capture productivity differences across the entire area, such as those arising from losses due to pest and disease attacks (Coops et al. 2006), or from climatic anomalies (González-García et al. 2015, Scolforo et al. 2016).
It is cutting down only "degraded" forests, where removal of the trees is "necessary to make room for plantation fields".
The top soil (0 25 cm depth) served as a starter and was collected from the Tavilo plantation fields, air-dried and sieved to 2 mm.
On the slopes at the two sides, step-plantation fields are widely distributed, and most of them shows evidence of landslides.
This is hardly surprising - they have spent most of the day in nearby plantation fields, picking tea that will net them around two cents a kilo - barely enough to feed their large families.
The present study also revealed the highest concentration of copper at sites S1, S2 and S3 which is due to the surface run-off from the nearby agricultural and plantation fields and settlements.
40 Aedes albopictus being the dominate vector may contribute to the observation that the Thai outbreak is disproportionately affecting more adults when compared with children and older working class individuals in the rubber plantation fields, although children would likely be more exposed to Ae. aegypti in homes and schools.
Their discarded bodies enriched the soil along every railroad track, and in every plantation field.
The rhizomes of G. elata were collected at the plantation field of Xiaocao Ba, Yunnan province, China, in December 2009.
Floral tissues and banana fruits at various developmental stages were collected in November, 2010 from a banana plantation field in Haikou, China.
