Biodiversity of Borneo Field Course 2007: Schedule

• 21 Jul: Arrivals
• 22 Jul: Travel to Lambir
  • Welcome party
• 23 Jul: Lambir (1) Introductions
  • Lecture: Introduction to course (Cam Webb)
  • Safety briefing (Kamal)
  • Lecture: Lambir, CTFS, forest dynamics (Stuart Davies)
  • Orientation walk; wandering and thinking of scientific questions
  • Discussion on `question forming’
  • Lecture: Biodiversity and biogeography of Borneo (Cam Webb)
• 24 Jul: Lambir (2) Plants, the CTFS-AA plot
  • Lecture: Plant taxonomy / phylogeny (Cam Webb)
  • Lab: 15 plant families, digital keys (Cam Webb/Stuart Davies)
  • To plot. Field tour of sub-communities (Stuart Davies)
  • Collect simple data for R analysis
  • Quiz on plant taxa
  • Lecture: Conservation in Sabah (John Payne)
• 25 Jul: Lambir (3) Insects
  • Lecture: Introduction to Insects (Dave Lohman)
  • Entomology (Naomi Pierce)
  • Lab: insect analysis
• 26 Jul: Lambir (4) Stats and R. Computers
  • Lecture/lab: Basic stats, R (incl anal. of collected data) (Cam)
  • Lecture/lab: Producing our digital record (Cam)
  • Macaranga and ants (Stuart)
  • Night Walk with Niel Das
• 27 Jul: Lambir (5) Herps and Niah
  • Lecture: Herps (Neil Das)
  • Field lab: Herps
  • To Niah Caves (Bukit Kasut)
• 28 Jul: Lambir (6) Project proposals
  • Project presentations (ca. 10 x 10+5 min)
  • Lecture: Cultural diversity of Borneo (Jayl Langub)
• 29 Jul: Lambir (7) Projects/rest
  • Lecture: Global Change Biology I (Paul Moorcroft)
• 30 Jul: Lambir (8) Projects. Canopy Crane
  • Lecture: Global Change Biology II (Paul Moorcroft)
• 31 Jul: Lambir (9)