A5061266643- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Bamboo properties and applications
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Livestock Farming and Management
Universiti Putra Malaysia
2013-2025
Malaysian Palm Oil Board
2025
Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah International Islamic University
2019
Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia
2019
Cardiff University
2015-2016
Abstract This review critically examines the integration of ruminant livestock with oil palm cultivation, using PESTEL (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal) framework to analyse factors influencing its adoption implementation. Crop-livestock integration, a climate-smart agriculture strategy, offers potential reduce dependency on chemical herbicides, improve sustainability, address global vegetable production challenges. The spans literature from 1995 2024,...
Wood products are highly exposed to infestation by powder post beetles. Dinoderus minutus (bamboo borer) is a wood boring beetle that seriously damage dried bamboo and finished products. Management of D. using pesticides showed negative effects on environment despite being very costly. By understanding influence natural climatic conditions their reproductive behaviour, could help us develop cost effective environmental friendly strategy cope up with this problem. In the present study,...
Integrated pest management (IPM) is widely practiced in commercial oil palm agriculture. This system intended to minimize the number of attacks by insects such as bagworms on crops, well curb economic loss with less dependency chemical pesticides. One practice IPM use biological control agents predatory insects. In this study, we assessed response natural enemies outbreak and water stress, document habitat associations potential predators. The abundances 2 insect species, namely Sycanus...
Abstract In human‐modified landscapes, important ecological functions such as predation are negatively affected by anthropogenic activities, including the use of pesticides and habitat degradation. Predation insect pests is an indicator healthy ecosystem functioning, which provides services, especially for agricultural systems. this study, we compare attempts from arthropods, mammals, birds on artificial caterpillars in understory, between three tropical land‐use types: oil palm plantations,...
Southeast Asian tropical rainforests are shrinking at an alarming rate largely due to anthropogenic activities such as logging and agricultural expansion. The loss of from human exploitations caused devastating irreversible impacts on avian biodiversity. establishment protected areas is effective tool mitigate further forest biodiversity loss. However, the ability degraded rainforest support still remain little known. Here, we assessed bird assemblages in a hill dipterocarp Peninsular...
Abstract One of the key ecosystem services offered by avian biodiversity within agricultural landscapes is natural predation. Nonetheless, current use biological control agents such as farmland birds in oil palm plantations relatively limited. This study aimed to assess potential roles biodiversity, particularly insectivores that provide predation against herbivorous insects. We also investigated influence local‐ and landscape‐scale variables on foliage damage (crown or frond). Our data...
Arthropods play vital roles in ecosystem functions, yet their distribution is subjected to environmental factors. Hence, this study investigates the impact of habitat features on arthropod communities within cocoa smallholdings under different farming practices: agroforestry and monoculture systems. We conducted sampling using yellow sticky traps assessed at each plantation twice capture temporal variations populations. The recorded 2945 individual arthropods belonging eight functional...
Abstract In many developing countries, commercial oil palm farming supports the livelihood of millions small‐scale farmers in rural areas. However, forest conversion into monocultures has a major impact on tropical biodiversity. existing production landscapes, little is known about how different agricultural practices affect farmland biodiversity, particularly insect biota. We quantified fruit‐feeding butterfly species richness and community composition areas subject to polyculture...
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus from which several species are often deployed for commercial industrial tree plantation due to their desirable wood properties utilization in both solid and fiber products, as well growth productivity many environments. In this study, method monitoring the health status of 22.78 ha pellita stand was developed using red-green-blue channels captured an unmanned aerial vehicle. The ortho-image generated, visual atmospheric resistance index (VARI) indices were...
Abstract Herbicide overuse decimates understory vegetation, including those beneficial plants which may lead to a reduction of some production‐related ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, water regulation, natural pest control, and pollination. Such conventional weed management practices need be replaced with environmentally friendly methods ecological grazing make palm oil supply chain sustainable. Contrary chemical weeding, livestock integration is believed useful tool control...
To date, the idea of using livestock animals as biological tools to manage weeds, sequester carbon, and boost food security in oil palm plantations has not been seriously considered by industry stakeholders major producing countries (e.g., Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Nigeria). We revisit integration cultivation with farming a silvopastoral agroforestry practice wake Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Oil palm-livestock potential promote sustainable production because it can...
Abstract The impacts of urban forest fragmentation on tropical ant foraging activity are poorly understood. Malaysian giant ( Dinomyrmex gigas ) is among the largest species worldwide. Colonies this contribute to important ecosystem processes such as predation and nutrient cycling in forests Southeast Asia. Here, we compared diurnal D. workers urban‐fragmented contiguous forests, investigated how was shaped by key environmental factors vegetation structure microclimate. Specifically, sampled...
Abstract Due to rapid urbanization, logging, and agricultural expansion, forest fragmentation is negatively affecting native wildlife populations throughout the tropics. This study examined effects of landscape habitat characteristics on lesser mouse‐deer, Tragulus kanchil , in Peninsular Malaysia. We conducted camera‐trap survey at 315 sampling points located within 8 reserves. An assessment site‐level variables was each point. Our provides critical ecological information for managing...
Conventional oil palm plantations, characterized by monocropping practices, are susceptible to pest infestations due the lack of diversity in crop composition. This reliance on monoculture often necessitates heavy pesticide use, posing considerable risks human health, environment, and biodiversity. In contrast, regenerative agricultural approaches support ecosystem services, such as natural control, thereby reducing dependency promoting biodiversity while maintaining productivity. The...