2°58′55″N 102°18′47″E / 2.982°N 102.313°E / 2.982; 102.313 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. In 1987, a 50 hectare forest dynamics plot was established in the reserve, which began as a collaboration between the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO; previously Center for Tropical Forest Science), and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 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. The reserve has largely been destroyed by loggers and miners.
References
- "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.
- ^ ForestGEO. "Pasoh ForestGEO". www.forestgeo.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
Further reading
- 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.