Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Table 7.1

Continued

Center forTropical ForestScience program

Collaboratinginstitutions

Year initiatedand censusescompleted

Plot size Altitude

Annual rainfall,and durationof dry season

No. of speciesand trees

Fushan Nature Reserve,Taiwan

Taiwan Forestry ResearchInstitute, TunghaiUniversity (Taiwan), STRI

2002;census: ongoing

25 ha

650–733 m

4067 mm0 months

Nanjenshan NatureReserve, Taiwan

Tunghai University(Taiwan), STRI

1989;3rd census: 2004

6 ha

300–340 m

3582 mm0 months

125 spp.36,400 trees(3 ha)

Khao Chong WildlifeRefuge, Thailand

Royal Thai ForestDepartment, NationalInstitute of EnvironmentalStudies (Japan), HarvardUniversity (USA), STRI

1998;1st census: 2003

24 ha

50–300 m

2700 mm2–3 months

612 spp.100,800 trees

AfricaIturi Forest/Okapi WildlifeReserve, DemocraticRepublic of Congo

Centre de Formation et deRecherche enConservation Forestiere(Democratic Republic ofCongo), WildlifeConservation Society(USA), STRI

1994;2nd census: 2000

40 ha

700–850 m

1730 mm3–4 months

420 spp.299,000 trees

Korup National Park,Cameroon

BioResourcesDevelopment andConservation Programme(Cameroon), OregonState University (USA),International CooperativeBiodiversity Group, STRI

1997;1st census: 1999

50 ha

150–240 m

5272 mm3 months

494 spp.329,000 trees

Source

: Center for Tropical Forest Science.