Currently we have been testing different kinds of regeneration treatments that would be defined silviculturally as irregular shelterwoods. We also have been using the baseline seedling studies to develop techniques for the restoration of rain forest on degraded lands. For information on research please see major publications . Below are photographs of some of the various experiments being conducted at Sinharaja. Location map of Sinharaja and distribution of remaining rain forest in the wet zone of southwest Sri Lanka.
Numbers refer to the different floristic regions of the southwest.
2 a view of the topographyof mixed dipterocrap rainforest of the Sinharaja Fig. 3 Controlled shelters are designed to test tree seedling reponse to different amounts and qualities of sunlight. 4 Potting studies monitoring the response of tree seedlings to different amounts of soil nutrients. A seedling competition plot within a canopy opening of the rainforest. The plants are all ten years old.