Using data from CTFS 50 ha plots in Malaysia and additional tree plots throughout Sarawak, Malaysia, detailed spatial analyses at both the landscape and community level are being performed to assess the relative strength of the above processes as well as life history traits relating to overall species density. Finally, spatial, individual based-models are being developed to investigate the potential ways rare species may increase their chance of persistence. Models will take the form of both differential equations and iterative spatial arrays. Extensive multivariate analyses performed on small plots located throughout Sarawak, Malaysia have identified the pattern and scale of habitat and floristic variation of the forest communities understudy. Detailed spatial analyses of 50 ha plot data has commenced with initial results focused on species area relationships and effects of habitat heterogeneity.
Fieldwork continues to focus on species reproductive and seedling ecology.
Patterns of floristic variation in mixed dipterocarp forest of northwest Borneo. Submitted to Journal of Ecology.