Dipterocarpaceae

Last quarter, we published a paper ‘Effects of climate change and land cover on the distributions of a critical tree family in the Philippines’ in the journal Scientific Reports. Our study was featured in two national broadsheet newspapers, by the Straits Times in Singapore and the the Philippine Daily Inquirer in the Philippines, both of which I am pleased to share in this post. First, here’s the link to the online article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Ms Jhesset Enano.

In this paper, we modelled species distributions of dipterocarps in the Philippines, an important tree family that are key to maintaining structure and function of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, to understand potential impacts of deforestation and climate change on their current and future distributions.