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Asian Forests

In Asia we currently have a particular focus on Malaysian Borneo (the states of Sabah and Sarawak).

A major focus at the moment is the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project, where we are working on understanding how biodiversity and ecosystem function vary in a landscape of primaru forest, logged forest, forest fragments and oil palm plantation. We have intensive monitoring plots throughout this landscape.

We also work with two intensive monitoring plots in Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, the highest diversity site in the Paleotropics.

We are currently setting up three plots around three flux towers in an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. The project is aims to conduct the first systematic analysis of the full carbon cycle of oil palm before, during and after the process of replanting from an old growth to a second rotation oil palm plantation. The project is funded by, and based on, ongoing work at the SMART plantation in Riau.

Finally, we have plans to increase work in India in the near future.

Organisations

SAFE organisation

Subprojects

Where are we working?

- Site

- Plot

- Field station

Photos and images

Dear GEM team around the world

Photos of last campaign in Benta and Danum Valley, Sabah-Borneo. A new model of litter trap easy to make, deadwood respiration collar and ingrowth core mesh.
Malaysian monitoring intensive carbon team lead by Terhi Riuta, Rostin Tien, Nani Suhaini and Rohit Kailoh and the wonderful guys from Danum Valley staff at the moment they have been measuring in two new hectare plots.
My special thanks to the managers Alex Karolus, Johnny Larenus, Byan Gray and Unding Jami.
Well done Beisit and Fernando in Belize and all the best in Cusco with Cloud project.

Abrazos GEM team.

Walter

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Cécile Girardin

Almost 8 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Message from Erika Berenguer:

Our paper on the cost-effectiveness of field assessments of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests has just come out in Plos One:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0133139

This is a... More
Yadvinder Malhi

Almost 8 years ago

West African Forests, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect, Lowland Amazon Forest, Southern Temperate Forests, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham

Here's a nice, very convenient and cheap method for getting a standardized index of decomposition across the GEM sites: http://www.decolab.org/tbi/

As a plus, it is already been performed at a... More
Walter Huaraca Huasco

Almost 8 years ago

SAFE subproject

Dear GEM team around the world

Photos of last campaign in Benta and Danum Valley, Sabah-Borneo. A new model of litter trap easy to make, deadwood respiration collar and ingrowth... More

Cécile Girardin

About 6 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Hi GEM team,

Here is a nice introduction on the work we are carrying out on El Niño by Laura Cole, a journalist from Geographical magazine: http://geographical.co.uk/places/forests/item/2149-research-blog-the-tropics-and-el-nino

Laura will be following our work on El Niño for a few months. If you have stories from your fieldwork, or findings that you would like Laura to showcase, don't hesitate to contact me.

Abrazos,
Cécile
Cécile Girardin

Over 6 years ago

West African Forests, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, European Forests Wytham, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Hi GEM team,
Here is a message from Miles Silman and his team, who are getting ready for a big re-census in the Andes: "There is an assumption that I wanted to check on about the strapping-tape dendrometers. Has anyone ever checked for stretch? For example, putting one on a steel or concrete lamp post, etc.? If so, what did they find?"
Cécile Girardin

Over 7 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Here is the very cool 3D T-lidar scan of the canopy walkway in Wytham Woods, produced by Kim Calders of NPL/UCL:
https://youtu.be/RS6q3HMEJK8?vq=hd1080

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People

Yadvinder Malhi

I am Professor of Ecosystem Science at Oxford University.
I lead the Ecosystems Programme at the Environmental Change Institute, with a focus of understanding the functioning of tropical forests and...

Walter Huaraca Huasco

Walter is an experienced botanist and plant biologist who focuses on carbon cycling in tropical forest ecosystems. He has been working on the Andes to Amazon transect established by the...

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1994 Kogyae Management Plan.pdf

Uploaded by: Yadvinder Malhi
February 1, 2012

This document is the original management plan for the Kogyae Strict Wildlife Reserve (from 1994). Contains lots of useful background...