PFS – Tropical Asia

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Title: Biodiversity, Conservation & Sustainable Development Field Course – Indonesia 2010

Instructions for participants: here

Registration: Registration is Closed

Type: Field course

Venue: Alas Purwo National Park, Bali Barat National Park, Rinjani National Park, and Bali Botanic Garden

Dates: 25 July – 4 September 2010 (6 weeks)

Organiser: Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Asia-Pacific chapter, University of Indonesia and University of Gajah Madah

Sponsors: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change

Fellowships: Travel awards and fellowships to cover the course fees are available for participants from lower-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Preference will be given to participants who are presenting a paper (oral or poster) at the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation meeting (19-23 Jul) in Bali. A limited number of fellowships to cover the conference fees are also available.

Fees: $1500 (including domestic transport, food and accommodation)

About: During this six-week field course participants will study forest ecology, conservation biology and sustainable development through both resource staff led practicals and participant-led research projects. The course will be international in character with participants selected from across the Asia-Pacific region and a diverse pool of resource staff from both regional and local research institutions. In the current (tentative) schedule we propose to study biomes on either side of Wallace’s Line. The course will start at Alas Purwo National Park, East Java, which is predominantly comprised of dry seasonal forest over limestone. Here participants will receive an introduction to the study of different taxa and advanced phylogenetic and statistical methods. We will then move briefly to Bali Barat National Park, which harbours a diversity of forest types but predominantly seasonal evergreen forest, where participants will study conservation and sustainable development, before continuing to Rinjani, Lombok, a lower montane forest, to study plant-animal interactions. Participants will conduct short research projects (5 days) at both Alas Purwo and Rinjani. The course will finish at Bali Botanic Gardens where participants will analyse and write up their findings, which will be presented to an invited audience at a course symposium on 3rd Sep. Please see the detailed schedule given below.

Field course schedule