Pasoh Forest Reserve
2°58′55″N 102°18′47″E / 2.982°N 102.313°E The Pasoh Forest Reserve, a nature reserve located about 8 km from Simpang Pertang, Malaysia and around 70 km southeast of Kuala Lumpur. It has a total area of 2,450 hectares, with a core area of 600 ha surrounded by a buffer zone. Palm oil plantations surround the reserve on three sides while the other side adjoins a selectively logged dipterocarp forest. An average of 2 metres of rain fall each year, ranging from 1,728 to 3,112 mm.[1] In 1987, a 50 hectare forest dynamics plot was established in the reserve,[2] which began as a collaboration between the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO; previously Center for Tropical Forest Science),[3] and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.[4] Three censuses of the tree population in the plot have been carried out, the first in 1989, and have counted about 340,000 trees belonging to 800 species in that plot.[4] The reserve has largely been destroyed by loggers and miners.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "NPP Tropical Forest: Pasoh, Malaysia". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ Condit, Richard; Ashton, Peter S.; Manokaran, N.; Lafrankie, James V.; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Foster, Robin B. (November 1999). "Dynamics of the forest communities at Pasoh and Barro Colorado: comparing two 50-ha plots". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 354 (1391): 1739–48. doi:10.1098/rstb.1999.0517. PMC 1692684. PMID 11605618.
- ^ "What is ForestGEO?". ForestGEO. 19 November 2015.
- ^ a b ForestGEO. "Pasoh ForestGEO". www.forestgeo.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
Further reading
[edit]- Okuda, T.; Manokaran, N.; Matsumoto, Y.; Niiyama, Kaoru; Thomas, S. C.; Ashton, P. S. (2013-06-29). Pasoh: Ecology of a Lowland Rain Forest in Southeast Asia. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9784431670087.
- Stand structure of Pasoh forest reserve, a lowland rainforest in peninsular Malaysia.
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