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

该提案要求补充资金，以允许博士。哈佛大学阿诺德植物园Peter S. Ashton和James V. LaFrankie与马来西亚沙捞越林业局Lee Hua-Seng先生合作完成对美国和马来西亚人员的培训，对美国国家科学基金会支持的热带生物多样性研究的成功至关重要。这项研究本身是为了了解在西北婆罗洲热点地区，东马来西亚沙捞越的兰比尔国家公园，树木生物多样性是如何保持平衡的。该地区可能是旧世界物种最丰富的森林。预留了一个50公顷的特殊样地，用于研究土壤异质性在维持物种多样性中的作用。充分利用这一资源的一个可能的障碍是，在美国有不到10名植物学家，在马来西亚有5名，在沙捞越只有2名精通婆罗洲植物。该项目的教育目标是扩大驻地研究人员和技术人员的区域森林专门知识，从而促进新一代森林科学家之间的区域合作。阿什顿博士是一名高级研究员，通过对婆罗洲森林近三十年的研究获得了良好的国际声誉。LaFrankie博士是一位在婆罗洲从事博士后研究的年轻美国科学家。李先生是马来西亚沙捞越州研究与再造林局助理局长。主要研究支持通过NSF拨款号提供。BSR-9107247，并由日本来源提供配套资金，特别是文武基金和丸红株式会社。该项目与发展中国家科学计划的目标相关，该计划旨在为发展中国家的基础设施做出贡献，并提高美国科学家和工程师与发展中国家同行之间的合作水平各国通过交流科学信息、思想、技能和技术，并通过在互利问题上的合作来实现这一目标。

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.