Durante 30 días desde el 03 de Julio al 03 de Agosto del 2015 el equipo de investigadores de RAINFOR encabezado por el Biólogo Abel Monteagudo M., acompañado por Carolina Ramírez Méndez; Yaneth Quispe Mamani;...
Led by University of Oxford post-docs Dr. Lisa Patrick Bentley and Dr. Norma Salinas, the T-Forces Peru campaign had a successful kickoff in early July. Changing sites every 2-3 weeks until the beginning of October, the team will sample plant...
Simon Lewis and Wannes Hubau led a team to measure a second census of 9 primary forest plots in Salonga National Park, DRC. his mission was supported by the ERC Advanced Grant ‘Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System’...
Brunei has a rich heritage of permanent forest plots which were established in the early 1990’s and continually monitored through the last two decades. Lan Qie is currently conducting a systematic re-census of a number of long-term plots...
Last month saw the end of our six month traits and ecophysiology campaign in Central and NE Peru, along an elevation gradient comparable to the one we sampled in SE Peru last year in the CHAMBASA campaign. The work involved a Peruvian team...
Shortly after the Sabah field campaign, Lan Qie moved onto the Indonesian side of Borneo for another T-FORCES field trip and remeasured 11 0.25ha permanent plots at Rekut Camp, in the geographical centre of Borneo situated at the headwaters of...
Funded by T-FORCES (European Research Council grant), Lan Qie (aka Lainie) led the recensus of three 1-ha permanent plots in Danum Valley Conservation Area (DVCA). Michael Schwarz (funded by the Imperial College London) provided valuable...
Simon Lewis went to Banyang Mbo Wildlife reserve in the eastern English-speaking part of Cameroon, to train the new European Research Council T-FORCES project post-docs, Wannes Hubau and Lan Qie. We are accompanied by Leeds’ best field...
After over three months’ of fieldwork in some of the best preserved forests of North-West Borneo, Sarawak field campaign was concluded in August 2013. Funded by T-FORCES (European Research Council grant), Lainie and her team re-censused...
Between November 8th and December 20th I led a 4th census on 6 forestplots in Ghana, providing a 20-year multicensus data series spanning 1993-2001-2007-2013. The team composed of a car and driver (mr. Sampson Adonten) from the...
The two DAD plots (DAD-03 and DAD-04) I visited are located in the Dadieso forest reserve, near the border with Ivory Coast. Villagers respect the reserve borders remarkably well, creating a very sharp distinction between plantations and forest...
The two CAP plots (CAP-09 and CAP-10) I visited are located in the Cape Three Points forest reserve, near the Atlantic Coast. The village of Cape Three Points, just south of the reserve, is the southernmost point of Ghana. Similar as in...