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 600ha 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] The reserve has largely been destroyed by loggers and miners.

References

  1. ↑ http://daac.ornl.gov/NPP/site_des/psh_des.html
  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.

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