Lambir’s Forest: The World’s Most Dive Known Tree Assemblage?
Lambir’s Forest: The World’s Most Dive Known Tree Assemblage?
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兰比尔森林：世界上最知名的潜水树木组合？
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10.1007/0-387-27161-9_17
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2005
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P. Ashton
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P. Ashton
如果兰比尔山国家公园（LHNP）要献给任何人，那应该是伊恩·厄克特。我第一次见到伊恩是在1953年的剑桥，当时我们都是本科生。我想加入探险家俱乐部，他和两个同事去了世界上最干旱的地方之一：埃塞俄比亚西北部的达纳湖和达纳湖，之后他从战争时期的沉寂中恢复了过来。因此，当10年后到达最潮湿的国家之一砂拉越时，发现伊恩和他的砂拉越妻子愉快地进入了行政部门，这真是一个惊喜。不幸的是，伊恩的职业生涯被癌症打断了，但在此之前，他有机会为当时砂拉越第四师的明智管理做出贡献，其首都在美里，伊恩在那里担任驻地。1965年，他从那里征求我的意见，关于保护至少当时的兰比尔森林保护区的那一部分的生物学案例，其中包括米里市的集水区。他是一个热衷于户外活动的人和自然主义者，知道瀑布，这成为公园的主要景点后，道路建于20世纪70年代，并已攀登陡峭的峡谷山顶三角测量标记武吉兰比尔。他有远见，预见到山区作为当地居民的娱乐区。他一点也不知道，兰比尔山的森林可能有2500种，是树木种类最丰富的地区之一，几乎可以肯定是旧世界最丰富的地区。
If Lambir Hills National Park (LHNP) were to be dedicated to anyone, it should be to Ian Urquhart. I first met Ian in 1953 at Cambridge, where we were both undergraduates. I was seeking to join the Explorers Club, which he had revived from wartime quiescence after an expedition with two colleagues to one of the driest places in the world: the Danekil country and Lake Thana in Northwest Ethiopia. So it was a surprise on arriving 10 years later in one of the wettest countries, Sarawak, to find Ian with his Sarawakian wife happily settled into the administrative service. Tragically, Ian’s career was cut down by cancer, but not before he had had a chance to contribute to the wise stewardship of what was then Sarawak’s Fourth Division, with its capital at Miri, where Ian served as Resident. It was from there that he sought my opinion, in 1965, concerning the biological case for conserving at least that part of the then Lambir Forest Reserve, which included the water catchment for the city of Miri. He was a keen outdoors person and naturalist, knew of the waterfall, which became the park’s main attraction after the road was built in the 1970s, and had scaled the steep defile to the summit trigonometric survey marker on Bukit Lambir. He had the vision to foresee the hills as a recreation area for local residents. Little did he know that the forest at Lambir Hills, with perhaps 2500 species, is among the richest areas in tree species for its size and almost certainly the richest in the Old World.