Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
www.afec.ecologicalevolution.org Our international course will bring together advanced undergraduate and graduate students from the US, China and Southeast Asia for an intensive 4 week course in field research methods, research design, sampling and analysis. Full scholarships are being offered for suitable candidates from Southeast Asian countries. Format: The Advanced Field Ecology and Conservation-Xishuangbanna (AFEC-X) Course [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
After the events of the 2009 ATBC conference concluded in ChinagMai, PhD student Kari Malen joined a tour of the Forest Landscape Restoration project led by Professor Stephen Elliot of Chiang Mai University. Ban Mae Sa Mai (a Hmong village) is the site of a collaborative program to restore forest by combining the research efforts [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2009
Chuck Cannon and Ferry Slik made met with several local officials and foreign consultants working in the newly formed Department of Forest Inspection in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Dr. Cannon talked about the use of DNA as a management and enforcement tool in the natural resource trade while Dr. Slik discussed the importance of accurate estimates [...]
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Posted in Research News on Mar 6th, 2009
In 2009, from Feb 28th to Mar 2nd, the meeting of the Southern section of ASPB was held in Austin, TX. The topics of the symposium and graduate students presentation focused on synbiotic nitrogen fixation, improve crops’ resistance and other vast areas of plant physiology. Cici also gave a presentation on part of the data [...]
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Posted in Research News on Mar 4th, 2009
ABSTRACT Aim: Identify environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and composition. Location: Borneo, Southeast Asia Methods: A GIS-environmental database with 5 arc minute (c. 10 × 10 km) resolution was combined with tree inventory data. Tree diversity, phylogenetic diversity (PD) and the two main compositional gradients were determined for 46 tree inventories. Akaike’s information criterion [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
PhD student ZHIA Deli participated in the workshop on scientific writing and statistics, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Feb 17-27 2009. The workshop was associated with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Asia Pacific Chapter (ATBC) annual conference and was hosted by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok.
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Posted in Research News on Mar 2nd, 2009
The Ecological Evolution group participated in the 3rd annual meeting of the Asia/Pacific Chapter meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Feb 12-15 2009. Prof. Chuck Cannon gave a plenary lecture on “Genomics and Tropical Biology: diving into the deep end”. Assoc. Prof. Ferry Slik presented “Forest [...]
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Posted in News, Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2009
The Chinese Academy of Sciences recently approved the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden’s proposal to establish a Key Laboratory for Tropical Forest Ecology. With a special focus on forest ecology, the new national laboratory will promote research into the structure, function, dynamics, and impacts of humans and environmental changes on tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems. Meanwhile, [...]
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