Dear Datuk/Prof/Dr/Sir/Mdm

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND  IBEC SEMINAR SERIES/TALK
Date:         12 January 2010 (Tuesday)
Speaker :    Dr. Stuart J. Davies, Center for Tropical Forest Science
Topic: On the diversity and dynamics of tropical forests. Results from a global network of large-scale forest plots.
Time: 1-2pm (lunch hour talk)
Venue: Tutorial Room 5, Level G, Faculty of Resource Sciences and Technology/IBEC Building, UNIMAS

Speakers Background: 

Dr Davies is the Director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science, Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Director of Asia Programs at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
Abstract:
Tropical deforestation continues at around 13 million hectares per year. This and other land-use change in the tropics contributes greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, reduces the ability of forest to regulate climates, and threatens many species that are known only from tropical rain forests. Over the past 28 years the Center for Tropical Forest Science has implemented a standardized system for monitoring the diversity and dynamics of tropical forests. Thirty-four plots of 16-148 hectares have been established in 20 countries across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Every tree with a stem diameter !]1 cm is mapped, measured, identified, and monitored. This international collaboration, involving hundreds of scientists from dozens of institutions, is now monitoring the growth and survival of 3.5 million trees in over 8,200 species (C over 15% of all known tropical tree species. These data provide a basis for determining: (i) forces maintaining diversity, and (ii) the response of trees and forest ecosystems to the Earth!/s changing climate. In this talk, I will discuss some of the key findings of the global network and describe progress with expanding the network to temperate forests.

ALL ARE WELCOMED!!!!!

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Thank you.