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Gunung Palung Orangutan Project
Borneo, including beach and mangrove forests, peat and freshwater swamp forests, and endangered lowland dipterocarp forests. In addition it is home to a range of rare and endangered ...
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Global Forest Watch: Indonesia
Sumatra and Kalimantan to seasonal monsoon forests and savanna grasslands in Nusa Tenggara and nondipterocarp lowland forests and alpine areas in ... recent and authoritative survey of the country’s forest cover predicts that lowland dipterocarp forests – the richest tropical habitat of all – will have vanished from Sumatra and ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - The Last Stand of the Orangutan - An Irreplacable Habitat
The most species-rich are the lowland dipterocarp forests, so named because of the predominance of trees from the Dipterocarpaceae family. These dipterocarp trees tend to fruit simultaneously, producing very ... need to occupy large ranges. The peat swamp forests of Borneo and Sumatra have fewer endemic species than the dipterocarp forests, but they have a high density of fruiting trees ...
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WWF - About the Heart of Borneo forests
Home > About WWF > Where We Work > Asia > Solutions by Region > Borneo Forests > The area Borneo Forests The area Why is it special? Wildlife Mammals Amphibians Reptiles Fish Birds ... a mosaic of varied habitats: mangroves, peat swamps and freshwater swamp forests, lowland dipterocarp forests, ironwood forests, heath forests and montane forests are all part of a complex ecosystem that has evolved over ...
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WWF - Borneo wildlife
Borneo tropical rainforests. Find out more about dipterocarp forests Science magnet Borneo has lured scientists for over 150 years, and has played a key ... virgin montane forest, many of which remain unexplored. The montane forests of Borneo form high altitude islands in a sea of lowland dipterocarp forests. As a result of their isolation, these places harbour a ...
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Albizia falcataria
Albizia biomass compares with 18 MT for Gmelina plantation and 14 MT/ha for dipterocarp forest (Kawahara et al, 1981). Annual stem increment was maximum in three-year old plantations ... . 1977. Lowland tropical hardwoods. External Aid Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wellington, N.Z. Kawahara, T., Kanazawa, Y., and Sakura, S. 1981. Biomass and net production of man-made forests in the ...
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Rainforest Biogeography
Over the last few centuries there has been an increasing drive to utilize the lowland forests commercially. The process of forest clearance for crop-growing and for ranching has accelerated ... other species. The surrounding forest is also likely to contain a large variety of different dipterocarp species, some of them scattered as rare individuals and others more abundant and gregarious. ...
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Forest certification and Malaysia
Sarawak are indigenous peoples. Tropical forests form the dominant natural terrestrial ecosystem in the country; the dominant habitats include species-rich lowland and hill dipterocarp forest. There are also extensive ... . In practice, too, there are two potential conflicting views of the forests. The first one is that forests are seen as a physical and economic resource, controlled by the state, ...
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Indo-Pacific Biodiversity - Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance
Asian flora and fauna such as tigers, elephants, orangutans, monkeys, rhinos, rich dipterocarp forests, and Rafflesia flowers (the largest on Earth). Further to the east, the biota of ... are nearly all the world's ecosystem types: glaciers, alpine tundra, savanna, montane and lowland rainforest, mangroves, wetlands, lake and river ecosystems, seagrasses, and some of the richest coral ...
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DSWF - BOKOR NATIONAL PARK PROJECT
Cardamom Elephant Mountains, the dry dipterocarp forests in the eastern Annamite Mountains, and lowland shrub and inundated forests in the central Lower Mekong make up the country's ... are committed to a personal responsibility; in this case, the future of Cambodia's forests and wildlife. Download donation form Donate online Every little contribution helps wildlife and ...
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