Wet Tropics: SE Asia
SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS (2001-2005)
- Publication of the Interactive Key to the Malesian Seed Plants
- The Darwin Initiative Papuan plant diversity project finished which strengthened work at Manokwari Herbarium
- Reduction of the total naming backlog and the incorporation of all major collection backlogs into the general herbarium or the naming system at RBG Kew
- Award of Darwin Initiative grant to fund the project: Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Thailand
- Award of Darwin Initiative grant to fund the project: Assessing and Conserving Plant Diversity in Commercially Managed Tropical Rainforests in Sabah
- Initiation and development of the annual RBG Kew Tropical Plant Identification Course (in collaboration with all other Herbarium sections)
KEY ELEMENTS OF FUTURE PLANS (2006 onwards)
- Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Thailand to be published (incorporating c. 500 Red Data assessments for Southern Thailand)
- Guide to the Alpine and Subalpine Flora of Mount Jaya to be published (incorporating c. 700 Red Data assessments for the alpine flora of New Guinea)
- Results of Assessing and conserving plant diversity in commercially managed tropical rainforests in Sabah project to be finished and published in scientific papers and as a field guide (incorporating habitat conservation assessments of three major reserves in Sabah)
- Publish the new version of Interactive Key to the Malesian Seed Plants
- Finish the Palms of New Guinea Project
- Publish taxonomic revisions of Boehmeria, Huperzia, Maesa, and Vitex in internationally refereed journals