The
ASB Program:
Phase
I (1994-1995)
Benchmark
sites
| Establishment
of multidisciplinary
teams
| Development
of standard
methods,
procedures
and protocols
| Scientists
trained
in ASB
research
methods
| Outputs
and achievements
Benchmark
Sites:
In Phase
I (1994-1995),
benchmark
sites
were established
at the
tropical
forest
margins
in Brazil,
Cameroon
and Indonesia,
multidisciplinary
research
teams
were assembled,
research
protocols
developed,
local
teams
of researchers
were trained,
and detailed
characterisation
of the
sites
was completed.
The
site in
Cameroon
represents
the humid
forest
margins
of the
equatorial
Congo
Basin
rain forest,
a zone
of rapid
demographic,
social
and environmental
change.
In Brazil,
the site
is in
the Western
Amazon
rain forest
region,
which
is subject
to rapid
development
through
government-sponsored
resettlement
schemes.
In Indonesia,
the site
in Sumatra
exemplifies
various
types
and stages
of deforestation
and degraded
lands
covered
with Imperata
cylindrica.
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| Acre,
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| Cameroon |
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Sumatra,
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The
three
sites
represent
a range
of biophysical
and demographic
factors
that are
found
in a significant
area of
the humid
tropics.
