U.S-Malaysia-Japan Cooperative Research on Understanding how Tree Biodiversity is maintained in the Lambir National Park, Sarawak,East Malaysia in the Northwest Borneo Hotspot

该提案要求追加资金， 允许彼得·S.阿什顿和詹姆斯V。 拉弗兰基，阿诺德植物园，哈佛 大学，与李华生先生一起完成， 马来西亚砂拉越林业部 培训美国和马来西亚人员 对他们的NSF支持的成功至关重要 热带生物多样性研究。 的 研究本身涉及了解如何 树木生物多样性保持平衡， 东砂拉越兰比尔国家公园 马来西亚，在婆罗洲西北部的热点， 可能是物种最丰富的森林 在旧世界。 50公顷的特殊地块 土壤的作用 维持物种多样性的异质性 可以研究。 一个可能的威慑， 充分利用这一资源是事实 世界上只有不到10位植物学家 美国、马来西亚5个， 精通婆罗洲植物群的沙捞越人。 该项目的教育目标是 扩大区域森林专门知识， 常驻研究人员和技术人员，以及 从而促进区域合作， 新一代森林科学家 阿什顿博士是一名高级研究员， 国际声誉卓著 经过三十年的研究， 婆罗洲森林。 LaFrankie博士是一位年轻的美国人。 从事博士后工作的科学家 在婆罗洲的研究 李先生是助理 研究和重新造林主任， 马来西亚沙捞越。 主要研究支持是 通过NSF授权号BSR-9107247提供， 与日本的资金来源相匹配， 特别是文部省基金和丸红 Corporation. 该项目与 科学促进发展的目标 国家方案，旨在促进 发展中国家的基础设施， 提高合作水平， 美国科学家和工程师及其 发展中国家的对应方， 科学信息、思想、 技能和技巧， 在互惠互利的问题上进行合作。

This proposal requests supplemental funds to permit Drs. Peter S. Ashton and James V. LaFrankie, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, to complete with Mr. Hua-Seng Lee, Department of Forestry, Sarawak, Malaysia, the training of U.S. and Malaysian personnel essential to the success of their NSF-supported research on tropical biodiversity. The research itself deals with understanding how tree biodiversity is maintained in balance in the Lambir National Park, Sarawak, East Malaysia, in the Northwest Borneo hotspot, an area that may be the most species rich forest in the Old World. A special 50 hectare plot has been reserved in which the role of soil heterogeneity in maintaining species diversity can be studied. A possible deterrent to the full utilization of this resource is the fact that there are less than 10 botanists in the United States, 5 in Malaysia, and only two in Sarawak who are fluent in the flora of Borneo. The educational objectives of the project seek to widen the regional forest expertise of the resident researchers and technical staff, and thereby foster regional collaboration among a new generation of forest scientists. Dr. Ashton is a senior researcher with an excellent international reputation gained through some three decades of research on Bornean forests. Dr. LaFrankie is a young U.S. scientist who has been engaged in postdoctoral research in Borneo. Mr. Lee is Assistant Director of Research and Reforestation, Sarawak, Malaysia. Primary research support is provided through NSF Grant No. BSR-9107247, with matching funds from Japanese sources, notably, the Monbusho Fund and the Marubeni Corporation. This project is relevant to the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program which seeks to contribute to the infrastructure of developing countries and to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in developing countries through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit.