2003

DIWPA Symposium and Steering Meeting successfully held

18-19 December 2003

The DIWPA Symposium was successfully held in Kyoto on December 18-19, 2003. Following the symposium, a workshop and DIWPA Steering Committee meeting were held at the same meeting site in Kyoto on December 20, 2003. DIWPA committee has selected two core areas for the future unifying project, "landscape change and biodiversity" and "carbon and biodiversity." Relevant activities will be conducted in line with these core areas in the near future. (Click the title of each presentation for pdf abstract.)

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Symposium Schedule

Thursday, 18 December, 2003

09.00-09.20 : Opening
09.00-09.10 Opening address (Hiroya Kawanabe)
09.10-09.20 Goals (Kanehiro Kitayama)
09.20-11.00 : International Partnerships in Biodiversity Research (session coordinator Toshi Nagata)
– A 21st Century COE Program of Kyoto University: Toward the Integration of Biodiversity Studies (Norio Yamamura)
– DIVERSITAS: An International Framework for Biodiversity Research (Anne Larigauderie) (pdf 9KB)
– Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies(MAIRS) (Hassan Virji) (pdf 6KB)
– CAB International: Its Activities Related to Biodiversity and a Concept Proposal on Agrobiodiversity (S.S. Sastroutomo, E.J. Asteraki and W.H. Loke) (pdf 21KB)
13.00-17.00 : Progress and Perspectives of the DIWPA-IBOY (session coordinator Takakazu Yumoto)
13.00-13.50 Forest Ecosystems (coordinator Masanori Toda)
– Observation of Forest -Ecosystem Biodiversity in DIWPA-IBOY (Masanori Toda and Kotaro Matsushita) (pdf 153KB)
– Progress of the Forest DIWPA-IBOY Program in North-West Part of the Pan-Japan Sea Area (Sergey Storozhenko, et al.) (pdf 141KB)
– Progress of IBOY in "satoyama" at Kakuma Campus of Kanazawa University, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan (Koji Nakamura, et al.) (pdf 102KB)
13.50-14.40 Island Ecosystems- The PABITRA Project (Dieter Mueller-Dombois, University of Hawaii) (pdf 20KB)
14.40-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.50 Biodiversity Studies in Freshwater under IBOY Scheme (Masahide Yuma, Katsuki Nakai and Oleg Timoshkin) (pdf 20KB)
15.50-16.40 Biodiversity Along the Coast of Asia- Pacific: Status, Trends and Perspectives (Miguel Fortes) (pdf 19KB)
16.40-17.00 Concluding remarks & discussions

Friday, 19 December, 2003

09.00-11.30 : Carbon and Biodiversity (session coordinator Kanehiro Kitayama)
09.00-09.30 Leveraging Actions for Multiple Benefits - Biodiversity Protection, Climate Mitigation & Sustainable Development (Michael Totten)
09.30-10.00 Synergizing Carbon and Biodiversity in Tropical Forest Management (John Tay, Waidi Sinun and Aminuddin Mohamad) (pdf 12KB)
10.00-10.30 Biodiversity & Reduced Impact Logging: The Sabah Forestry Department Experience (Ying Fah Lee, Anuar Mohammad and Arthur Y.C. Chung) (pdf 61KB)
10.30-11.00 Sustainability of Biomass and Floristic Composition in Reduced-Impact Logged Forests (Tatsuyuki Seino, et al.) (pdf 36KB)
11.00-11.30 Response of Lake Ecosystems to Seasonal Water Level Change in a Watershed Basin of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest (Toshio Iwakuma) (pdf 17KB)
13.00-17.00 : Landscape Conversion and Biodiversity (session coordinator Tohru Nakashizuka)
13.00-13.30 Forest Management Effects on Plant Species Diversity in a Fagus Crenata Forest Landscape in Central Japan, with Special Reference to Land Use Change (Takuo Nagaike, Tomohiko Kamitani and Tohru Nakashizuka) (pdf 43KB)
13.30-14.00 Spatial Aggregation and Optimal Reserve Number in Species-Rich Forests (Matthew D.Potts and Jeffrey R. Vincent) (pdf 73KB)
14.00-14.30 Earthworms as Naive Engineer; Their Functional Role and Susceptibility to Environmental Disturbance (Nobuhiro Kaneko, et al.) (pdf 14KB)
14.30-15.00 Traditional Home Garden and Rice Agro-Ecosystems in Sri Lanka: An Integrated Managed Landscape that Sustains a Rich Biodiversity (Channa N.B. Bambaradeniya) (pdf 42KB)
15.00-15.20 Coffee break
15.20-15.50 Lati' Ba': the Ecology of Wet-Rice Cultivation in Highland Borneo (Jayl Langub) (pdf 52KB)
15.50-16.20 Landscape-Ecological Approach Lacustrine Ecosystems: Towards Establishment of the Universal Pattern of the Ecosystem's Monitoring (Oleg A. Timoshkin, et al.) (pdf 20KB)
16.20-16.50 River-Land Trophic Links in Drainage Networks: Potential Impacts of Riverine Landscape Alterations on Aquatic and Terrestrial Biota (Tomoya Iwata, et al.) (pdf 13KB)
16.50-17.00 Concluding remarks

Saturday, 20 December, 2003

9.00-12.00 DIWPA Workshop Proposing and Writing Up Unifying Projects
13.00-15.00 DIWPA Steering Committee Steering Members and Invited Guests Only(pdf 93KB)

Poster Display: Biodiversity of the Western Pacific and Asia
(Thursday, 18 December, 2003 11.00-18.30)

  1. Genetic Diversity and Fine-Scale Genetic Structure of Four Dipterocarp Tree within a Primary Rain Forest (Yayoi Takeuchi, et al.) (pdf 15KB)
  2. Diversity of Viruses Infectious to Bloom-Forming Cyanobacteria, Microcystis Aeruginosa in a Hyper-Eutrophic Pond (Mie Honjo, et al.) (pdf 10KB)
  3. How Many Nights of Light Traps are Sufficient for to Get Faunal Inventory of Lepipoptera: Case Study at Seasonal Deciduous Angiosperm-Conifer Mixed Forest in Northern Hokkaido, Japan (Hirohumi Hara) (pdf 13KB)
  4. IBOY in Yanbaru Forest; Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaf Forest in the Northern Part of Okinawa Island (Tsutomu Enoki, Takeshi Sasaki and Masako Yafuso) (pdf 36KB)
  5. Arthropod Biodiversity Examined by Collision Traps Baited with Chemical Attractants in the Satoyama Zone at Kakuma Campus of Kanazawa University, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan (Shinsaku Koji, et al.) (pdf 15KB)
  6. Global Change and Monitoring of Biodiversity in Yakutia (Republic of Sakha), Russia (B.I.Ivanov, Solomonov N.G. and T.Ch. Maximov) (pdf 13KB)
  7. Biodiversity Conservation in Rehabilitating Degraded Tropical Rainforests (Waidi Sinun and Yap Sau Wai) (pdf 14KB)
  8. The Kahana Valley Ahupua'a - A PABITRA Site on O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands (Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Nengah Wirawan and James D. Jacobi) (pdf 20KB)
  9. Decay Rate and Microbial Biomass of Soil and Forest Leaf Liter, and Groups of Soil Fauna after Controlled Burning and Regeneration of Trees Nine Years after Slashed-Burned (Eric F. Salamanca, et al) (pdf 15KB)
  10. Preliminary Results of IBOY Activities in Gunung Halimun National Park, West Java, Indonesia (Woro A. Noerdjito) (pdf 10KB)

DIWPA-IBOY in Sinharaja, Sri Lanka

DIWPA-IBOY Programme Field Site in Sri Lanka: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site

4-10 October 2003

The Sinharaja Forest

The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is located in the south-west lowland wet zone of Sri Lanka, between latitudes 6°21’- 6°26’N, and longitudes 80°21’- 80°34’E. The mean annual rainfall varies between 3,614 to 5,000 mm, and the mean annual temperature between 19°C and 27°C. The Sinharaja forest consist of 11,187 ha, spread over an elevation range of 250 to 1150m above sea level. The vegetation of Sinharaja consists mainly of primary and secondary lowland wet evergreen forest, with a few patches of lower-montane forest and grassland in the higher altitude areas.

Traps

A field-based training programme on IBOY Forest Biodiversity Assessment Techniques was conducted by IUCN for a group of 10 participants from Sri Lanka, from the 4th-10th of October 2003 (one week). All the participants had previously been involved in faunal and floral surveys in Sinharaja. The participants conducted a biodiversity assessment using the IBOY method, from 7th-10th October. The arthropods were sampled on three consecutive days, using three sets each of pitfall traps, malaise traps, window traps and light traps, placed at the canopy and ground levels. The flora (> 10cm dbh; < 10cm dbh and > 2m height; < 2m height) were also enumerated in a 1ha plot. Although the work was interrupted by intermittent rain, the group work hard to complete the 3-day assessment. The results are currently being analyzed by the participants.

DIWPA Steering Committee approves the development of an IBOY database system

February 2003

DIWPA Steering Committee voted to develop and house the IBOY database system tentatively for 2 year in the DIWPA Secretary Office. The development of a database has been a pending problem since 2000 because it deals with raw data collected across all sites. As a transitional measure, DIWPA Office will house the database system to promote the specimen identification, linkage of the IBOY sites with taxonomists, and the development of comprehensive scientific program. For the first two years, the manipulation of data will not be allowed. It will not be open to the public but the access will be strictly restricted to the IBOY site managers who are admitted by DIWPA. Prof. Masanori Toda is developing a prototype of the database software. The database with entomological specimen data as an example will be put in the DIWPA web in a few months. However, the upload of data will not be compulsory. The details of the system are to be announced soon. Thank you, Prof. Toda for your efforts.

2002

DIWPA-IBOY technical training course workshop was held in snowy Sapporo, Japan, for participants from tropical countries!

18-21 November 2002

Participants vigorously listen to lectures

DIWPA-IBOY technical workshop was held in Sapporo from 18th to 21st November. Four participants from Malaysia and Indonesia cheerfully participated the training course in the Hokkaido University Museum in snowy Sapporo. This course was organized by DIWPA to transfer new techniques to manage entomological specimens collected from IBOY with the assistance of Prof. Masanori Toda, one of the lead authors of the IBOY Manuals and the inventor of the standard entomological traps of IBOY. He and his crew gave a series of lectures to the participants. The highlight of the course was the introduction to the technique of family-level identification using a digital photo library as well as to the specimen management database system. The techniques are being developed also by Prof. Toda and his crews. Participants learned these new techniques and hopefully would disseminate in their home countries. DIWPA appreciates the voluntary efforts and assistances given by Prof. Toda, Dr. M. Ohara, Dr. S. Tanabe, Mr. G. Ito and Mr. Inari. Thanks also for coming to cold Japan; Dr. Woro Noerdjiito (LIPI, Indonesia), Ms. Indah Trisnawati (Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia), Ms. Nancy Jipanis (Sabah Parks, Malaysia) and Ms. Nor Zaneedarwaty Norman (University Kebangsaan Malaysia).

Four cheerful participant, and Prof. Toda and his crew

The training course program

  • 18th (Mon)
  • 9:00-12:00
  • Overview of the DIWPA-IBOY activities - Prof. M.J.Toda
  • Introduction to the workshop - Dr. S.Tanabe
  • The tour of the Hokkaido University Museum - Dr. M. Ohara
  • 14:00-1700
  • The tour of the Hokkaido University (e.g. Systematic Entomology lab.)
  • 19th (Tue)
  • 9:00-12:00
  • Sorting of light-trapped insect samples
  • Specimen preparation (pinning, labeling)
  • 14:00-1700
  • Input of the specimen count into the computer
  • Digital photographing of the specimens
  • 20th (Wed)
  • 9:00-12:00
  • Introduction of a family-level identification system using a digital-photo library
  • 14:00-1700
  • Introduction of a database for the IBOY samples
  • 21st (Thu)
  • 9:00-12:00
  • Meeting for the IBOY activities in each site (problems and future direction)
  • 14:00-1700

The APN/PABITRA workshop held in Fiji in the course of DIWPA-IBOY in Nov. 2002.

November 2002

participant of the APN/PABITRA workshop

PABITRA ( the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect Network) began in 1997 as a project of the Ecosystem Division in the Biodiversity Task Force of the Pacific Science Association. PABITRA is a sister network of DIWPA, DIVERSITAS in the Western Pacific and Asia. PABITRA received new funding in April 2002 with the immediate objective to establish the PABITRA Gateway Transect in Fiji. An Initial Synthesis Meeting was held from 15-19 July 2002 at the University of the South Pacific's Institute of Applied Sciences (USP/IAS). Two overseas collaborators (Harley Manner from Guam and Dieter Mueller Dombois from Hawaii) met with twelve Fijian collaborators. We lined out a broad (approximately 100 km long) landscape transect from Mt. Tomaniivi (1324 m) to Laucala Bay (near Suva) on Viti Levu and determined six biodiversity study sites from the Rewa River Delta to the Wabu Watershed. We discussed what sort of background data should be made available at a second meeting. This second meeting took place from 18 November to 3 December 2002 in two sections. In Section I (18 to 22 Nov.), the PABITRA (Fiji) Group carried out a Field Biology Training course according to the new PABITRA Manual. Section II, the Joint Analysis Workshop followed immediately (from 25 Nov. to 3 Dec.). Marika Tuiwawa, the Fiji PABITRA coordinator, invited eight overseas collaborators with different specialties for this workshop. We spent six days out of the nine-day workshop in the field with a number of students, USP faculty as well as Fiji Government and NGO Delegates. We traveled in eight 4-wheel drive vehicles to all the pre-selected biodiversity sampling sites, discussed and demonstrated our standardized PABITRA biodiversity assessment methodology, and stayed overnight in Fijian villages. Here, our objectives were clarified in colloquial terms and sanctioned in sevu-sevu ceremonies with the village elders.

Reported by Dieter Mueller-Dombois. (PABITRA Network Coordinator)