Pasoh Forest Reserve

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 2450 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 1728 to 3112 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 Center for Tropical Forest Science, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.[3] 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.[3] The reserve has largely been destroyed by loggers and miners.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-08-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "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. November 1999. doi:10.1098/rstb.1999.0517. PMC 1692684. PMID 11605618.
  3. STRI. "Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-Pasoh Plot Information". www.ctfs.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-18.

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