Travels in South-Eastern Asia

First record of Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais, 1850) from Ukraine on the background of the European occurrence of the species

Journal of Iberian Geology ◽

10.1007/s41513-021-00164-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Adrian Marciszak ◽

Yuriy Semenov ◽

Piotr Portnicki ◽

Tamara Derkach

Keyword(s):

Body Size ◽

First Record ◽

The Body ◽

Crocuta Crocuta ◽

Early Pleistocene ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

South Eastern

AbstractCranial material ofPachycrocuta brevirostrisfrom the late Early Pleistocene site of Nogaisk is the first record of this species in Ukraine. This large hyena was a representative of the Tamanian faunal complex and a single specialised scavenger in these faunas. The revisited European records list ofP.brevirostrisdocumented the presence of this species in 101 sites, dated in the range of 3.5–0.4 Ma. This species first disappeared in Africa, survived in Europe until ca. 0.8–0.7 Ma, and its last, relict occurrence was known from south-eastern Asia. The main reason of extinction ofP.brevirostrisprobably was the competition withCrocuta crocuta. The cave hyena was smaller, but its teeth were proportionally larger to the body size, better adapted to crushing bones and slicing meat, and could also hunt united in larger groups.

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Solar resource modeling for CSP: Current status of aerosol-related errors in South-Eastern Asia

10.1063/5.0028575 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

José A. Ruiz-Arias ◽

Vicente Lara-Fanego ◽

Tomas Cebecauer

Keyword(s):

Current Status ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Resource Modeling ◽

South Eastern ◽

Solar Resource

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Non-Invasive Integrated Study of Groundwater Resources in Southern and South-Eastern Asia: Geochemical Prospectives

10.46427/gold2020.1286 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Majid Khan ◽

Muhammad Hasan

Keyword(s):

Groundwater Resources ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Non Invasive ◽

South Eastern ◽

Integrated Study

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Exposing the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh’s Leather Sector

10.19088/clarissa.2021.001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Clare Gorman

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Action Research ◽

Child Labour ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Dramatic Decrease ◽

Big Business ◽

South Eastern ◽

Global Demand ◽

New Research

As one of the country’s biggest employers and its second largest exporter, the leather sector is big business in Bangladesh. But it is also in crisis. A dramatic decrease in the global demand for leather since COVID-19 has led to the collapse of the supply chain with workers, especially children, bearing the worst of the brunt. As cracks in the industry’s surface widen, new research from the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme shines a light into its hidden corners, revealing examples of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) at almost every turn.

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Assessment of Water Quality in Indo-Gangetic Plain of South-Eastern Asia under Organic vs. Conventional Rice Farming

Water ◽

10.3390/w12040960 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 960

Author(s):

Debjani Sihi ◽

Biswanath Dari ◽

Zhengjuan Yan ◽

Dinesh Kumar Sharma ◽

Himanshu Pathak ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Quality Parameters ◽

Basmati Rice ◽

Conventional Farming ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Gangetic Plain ◽

South Eastern ◽

The Impact ◽

Indo Gangetic Plain

Water contamination is often reported in agriculturally intensive areas such as the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in south-eastern Asia. We evaluated the impact of the organic and conventional farming of basmati rice on water quality during the rainy season (July to October) of 2011 and 2016 at Kaithal, Haryana, India. The study area comprised seven organic and seven conventional fields where organic farming has been practiced for more than two decades. Water quality parameters used for drinking (nitrate, NO3; total dissolved solids (TDS); electrical conductivity (EC) pH) and irrigation (sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) and residual sodium carbonate (RSC)) purposes were below permissible limits for all samples collected from organic fields and those from conventional fields over the long-term (~15 and ~20 years). Importantly, the magnitude of water NO3 contamination in conventional fields was approximately double that of organic fields, which is quite alarming and needs attention in future for farming practices in the IGP in south-eastern Asia.

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The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse), a vector of dengue, chikungunya and zika viruses, reaches Portugal (Diptera: Culicidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4413 (1) ◽

pp. 197 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

EDUARDO MARABUTO ◽

MARIA TERESA REBELO

Keyword(s):

Range Expansion ◽

Cold Season ◽

Tropical Species ◽

Asian Tiger Mosquito ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

Stagnant Water ◽

South Eastern ◽

Asian Tiger ◽

The World ◽

Tiger Mosquito

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse), is a tropical species originally from south-eastern Asia (Hawley, 1988). It has experienced a rampant human-mediated range expansion since the 1970s to now occupy almost the whole of the tropical and subtropical areas of the world. As an eclectic haematophagous species, it attacks humans and is able to use a number of man-made and natural structures where stagnant water is present (Estrada-Franco & Craig, 1995). Eggs are able to survive for extended periods of time in complete dryness and diapause over unsuitable cold season, making it an especially resilient species (Hawley, 1988).

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