About Us
News
Announcement
Research
Conservation & Horticulture
Public Education
Graduate Study
Scientist
International Cooperation
Resources
Annual Reports
Publications & Papers
Visit XTBG
Societies
XTBG Seminar
Open Positions
4th XSBN Symposium
CAS-SEABRI
PFS-Tropical Asia
Links
 
   Location:Home > International Cooperation > Int’l Cooperation News
Ferry Slik talks about climate change and its impact at ASEM Workshop 2010
Author: Ai Chongrui
ArticleSource:
Update time: 2010-01-07
Close
Text Size: A A A
Print

 

  The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Workshop 2010 was held at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) during January 4-7.

With the theme "Towards Understanding the Impact of Global Climate Change on Biodiversity and Tropical Rainforests", the workshop represents Brunei's and Universiti Brunei Darussalam's (UBD) response and commitment to the 'ASEM 6 Declaration on Climate Change', which was adopted at the 6th ASEM summit meeting in Helsinki in September 2006.

Among the six invited speakers, Dr. Ferry JW Slik of XTBG stated that "We have limited knowledge on how global climate change affects tropical forests around the world, even though this information is crucial for designing conservation strategies."

 

According to him, one way of predicting possible impacts of climate change on tropical forests' biomass, tree diversity and composition are by determining the influence of current climate gradients on these forest properties.

Once these relationships are known, they can be superimposed on maps containing modelled climate scenarios to determine if and how forest biomass, tree biodiversity and composition will change in a spatial context.

  The Brunei Times covered Ferry Slik’s research work with a title “Expert hails HoB lead to curb degradation”.

   

  Appendix Download
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Copyright XTBG 2005-2014 Powered by XTBG Information Center