From: (Cam Webb) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:12:56 +0700 (WIT) Subject: [Mastwatch] (no subject) Status: RO News from Koichi Kamiya (thanks!): Masting in Sarawak was amazing, I saw last and Murum that many Dipterocarpus and Dryobalanops started germinating while it was still early for germination of Shorea. There is no including Sepilock and Deramakot, but some trees of Parashorea and Engkabang species were fruiting. In Lambir, many species have fruited in Nov, and those in Dryobalanops are mostly matured. From: (Cam Webb) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:09:34 +0700 (WIT) Subject: [Mastwatch] Question from Peter Ashton Status: RO Did anyone look west of the Crocker range? Has there been any news of masting in Peninsular Malaysia or Sumatra? Peter Ashton ________________________________ From: mastwatch- on behalf of Cam Webb Sent: Sat 12/12/2009 6:12 AM To: Subject: [Mastwatch] (no subject) News from Koichi Kamiya (thanks!): Masting in Sarawak was amazing, I saw last and Murum that many Dipterocarpus and Dryobalanops started germinating while it was still early for germination of Shorea. There is no including Sepilock and Deramakot, but some trees of Parashorea and Engkabang species were fruiting. In Lambir, many species have fruited in Nov, and those in Dryobalanops are mostly matured. From: (Gabriella F) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:30:08 +0700 Subject: [Mastwatch] Sumatra: Shorea platyclados Status: RO Dear All, In Sumatra (North Sumatra Province, Batang Toru, South of Lake Toba) at 1000 m asl. Shorea platyclados has been in full fruiting now (see picture) altitude there are few other dipterocarp species (Dipterocarpus crinitus, Shorea acuminata also had fruit). But I'm not sure if one can speak of 'masting'. We have only been doing phenology in this site for 1 year. Next week I'll be heading to east Kalimantan and can then report on a lowland forest there (Sungai Wain) where we have 12 years of phenology studies ongoing. Best regards, Gabriella Fredriksson +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please send larger messages/attachments to my gmail account: The account get's clogged up quickly and will be terminated in the near future. Gabriella Fredriksson In Indonesia: PO Box 270 or PanEco-YEL Balikpapan 76110 Jl. K.H. Wahid Hasyim No 51/74 Kalimantan Timur Medan Baru Indonesia Medan 20154 www.beruangmadu.org Sumatra Utara Phone:+62-813-97822007 In the Netherlands: University of Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)/Zoological Museum Mauritskade 61 PO Box 94766 1090 GT Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel +31-20-525-7181 Fax +31-20-525-7238 (Co-Chair Sun Bear Expert Team IBA/BSG/IUCN) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0236.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 221305 bytes Desc: not available URL: From: (Colin Maycock) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:04:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Mastwatch] (no subject) Status: RO Hi Cam, The activity in Deramakot is a bit larger than Koichi suggests (I was with him and his student last week in Deramakot). We have a fair amount of S. macrophylla, Parashorea tomentell and P malanonan, S parvifolia, a few Dipterocarpus, a few Hopea etc in fruit. So while it's not a big Mast - I think we could see some decent quantities of seeds being available for restoration work. I've just finished running a tree climbing course for Robert Ong, so we have a few more climbers available to collect the seeds. Colin --- On Sat, 12/12/09, Cam Webb wrote: > From: Cam Webb > Subject: [Mastwatch] (no subject) > To: > Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:12 AM > News from Koichi Kamiya (thanks!): > > Masting in Sarawak was amazing, I saw last week at > Similajau and Murum that many Dipterocarpus and Dryobalanops > started germinating while it was still early for germination > of Shorea. There is no including Sepilock > and Deramakot, but some trees of Parashorea and Engkabang > species were fruiting. In Lambir, many species have fruited > in Nov, and those in Dryobalanops are mostly matured. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mastwatch mailing list > > http://lists.phylodiversity.net/listinfo.cgi/mastwatch-phylodiversity.net > From: (Colin Maycock) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:24:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Mastwatch] Question from Peter Ashton Status: RO Hi Peter, I will check with Reuben Nilus to see if any of the ecology staff are working in this area, but haven't made it there myself this year. I will be working in the Crocker Range NP and the Forest Reserves in the western part of Sabah next year, when I start censusing Shorea kudatensis. We will also be looking for Dipts species from the north Borneo geographical province. As there is a largish group of Dipts that just make it into the Sipitang/Beaufort region of Sabah and like Dipterocarpus lamellatus are now probably locally extinct. Colin --- On Sat, 12/12/09, Cam Webb wrote: > From: Cam Webb > Subject: [Mastwatch] Question from Peter Ashton > To: > Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 10:09 PM > > Did anyone look west of the Crocker range? > > Has there been any news of masting in Peninsular Malaysia > or Sumatra? > > Peter Ashton > > ________________________________ > > From: mastwatch- > on behalf of Cam Webb > Sent: Sat 12/12/2009 6:12 AM > To: > Subject: [Mastwatch] (no subject) > > > > News from Koichi Kamiya (thanks!): > > Masting in Sarawak was amazing, I saw last week at > Similajau and Murum > that many Dipterocarpus and Dryobalanops started > germinating while it was > still early for germination of Shorea. There is no masting > at Sabah > including Sepilock and Deramakot, but some trees of > Parashorea and > Engkabang species were fruiting. In Lambir, many species > have fruited in > Nov, and those in Dryobalanops are mostly matured. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mastwatch mailing list > > http://lists.phylodiversity.net/listinfo.cgi/mastwatch-phylodiversity.net >