butterfly International research cooperation symposium

Time:  13. September, 1999

Place:  Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nan-hai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Outline:

(1)  Organizing a workshop on an international symposium "Hurricane effects on tropical ecosystems" of the 2000 ILTER Conference.

(2)  Organizing Disturbances in Ecosystems in the East Asian Costal Region.

(3)  Planning for future collaborative research projects.

butterfly Conference: Wind Disturbances and Sub-/Tropical Ecosystems

Time:  10. September, 1999   a.m. 9:30

Place:  Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nan-hai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Introduction:

Disturbance is a major external factor which shapes the structure, function, and relative stability of ecosystems.  Together with the individual characters of an ecosystem, the response of ecosystems to disturbances is depended on the frequency, strength, and pattern of the disturbance force.  To improve the understanding of wind disturbances to ecosystems, TERN will exchange the research concepts and compare the present results with scholars from Luquillo tropical rain forest of U.S. LTER.  Further research cooperation will also be discussed.

butterfly 1999 NSC-NSF Joint Workshop on NGI Application

Time:  25. June, 1999

Place:  National Center for High-Performance Computing, Hsing-Zu

Introduction:  The application of high-performance computers on environmental science will be discussed.

butterfly Lecture announcement

Topic:  Time-Series Analysis of Long Term Biogeochemical Datasets from Forest Ecosystems

Speaker:  Dr. Michael Bredemeier, Professor, Forest Ecosystems Research Center of Goettingen University, Germany

Date:  25, May, 1999   a.m. 10:30

Place:  Taiwan Forestry Research Institute

Abstract:  The speaker will briefly introduce the interdisciplinary research work at the Goettingen Center and then come to a talk about methods to analyze long-term data series on biogeochemistry in forests, comprising time-series analysis and dynamic systems' analysis. Data series demonstrated come from the well known and long running Solling-Project and other long-term ecosystem studies.