Southeast Asia's lowland dipterocarp forests experience supra-annual "mast" fruiting and flowering events, in which the majority of trees reproduce simultaneously at irregular intervals, with extensive intervening periods of very low primate food availability. This scarcity of food results in a negative energy balance and a reliance on "fallback foods" in some primate species. By contrast, ombr...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Plant richness enhances banana weevil regulation in a tropical agroecosystem by affecting a multitrophic food web " [1]. It provides information about plant species richness, weevil corm damage and the abundance of different arthropod groups, including the banana weevil and its potential natural enemies and alterna...

Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden Woods and Wayside International, Princeton, NJ, USA Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia d Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kibale, Uganda e Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Yaounde, Cameroon f Technical Training and Research Centre for Development...

1School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. 2Institute of Tropical Aquaculture (Aquatrop), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. 3 Institute of marine biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Terengganu, Malaysia. 4Agriculture and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Teren...

The nutritional, anti-nutritional and mucilage contents of flour of leaves of two vegetables Bombax costatum leaf (BCL) and Cissus populnea leaf (CPL) were investigated. Their protein (≈19.0 g/100g in BCL and ≈13.0 g/100g in CPL) and ash (≈6.0 g/100g in BCL and ≈11.0 g/100g in CPL) contents were significantly different at P < 0.05. Both leaves were rich in Ca (BCL, 102 ± 2.5 mg/100g; CPL, 113 ±...

a case of tropical eosinophylia which seems to be an independent disease is described. the patient was admitted because of fever, loss of weight- ~and some respiratory disorders. the blood examination shows a high percentage of eosinophylia in several times. in this view other causes of the blood eosinophylia were eliminated by the laboratory tests. the patient was treated with arsenical drugs ...

Bioaccumulation of (134)Cs was determined in 5 tropical marine species: three bivalves (the oysters Isognomon isognomum and Malleus regula, and the clam Gafrarium pectinatum), one decapod (shrimp Penaeus stylirostris) and one alga (Lobophora variegata). Marine organisms were exposed to the radionuclides via different pathways: seawater (all of them), food (shrimp and bivalves) and sediment (biv...

Increasing trade between countries and gains in income have given consumers around the world access to a richer and more diverse set of commercial plant products (i.e., foods and fibers produced by farmers). According to the economic theory of comparative advantage, countries open to trade will be able to consume more-in terms of volume and diversity-if they concentrate production on commoditie...