Rapid expansion of exotic bamboos has lowered species diversity in Japan's ecosystems by hampering native plant growth. The invasive potential of bamboo, facilitated by global warming, may also affect other countries with developing bamboo industries. We examined past (1975-1980) and recent (2012) distributions of major exotic bamboos (Phyllostachys edulis and P. bambusoides) in areas adjacent ...

Bamboos, abundant in tropical forests, have high potential to dominate disturbed areas due their vegetative growth rate and preference for habitats. However, there are no studies ...

Bamboo has been the integral part of socio and cultural human life from time immemorial due to its multifarious versatile utility it also plays a important role in women empowerment. variety uses ranging conventional usage building, pulp paper manufacture, cottage industries household use. Due uncertainty sporadic flowering, long flowering cycle, unavailability short viability seeds, bamboos ar...

This contribution introduces the ongoing research on herbaceous bamboos started by the University of Florence (FT herbarium), the Universidad de Panama (PMA herbarium) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in 2011. The main goal of this project consists in collecting field data, in order to provide updated material to be used in a phylogenetic analysis to improve the knowledge of the ...

UNLABELLED Bamboo, the "Green Gold", included in the non-timber forest products has both ecological and economic importance. Here is an attempt to describe a database named "Bambooinfoline" , which provides enumeration of the different species of bamboos found in North Bengal, with special emphasis on taxonomy, edible properties, chemical constituents, morphological features along with tissue c...

This study explores the ability of WorldView-2 (WV-2) imagery for bamboo mapping in a mountainous region in Sichuan Province, China. A large area of this place is covered by shadows in the image, and only a few sampled points derived were useful. In order to identify bamboos based on sparse training data, the sample size was expanded according to the reflectance of multispectral bands selected ...