Long - term research permanent plot by National Park Research and Innovation

Thammanoon Temchai/ Email: dhamma57@gmail.com

National Parks Research Center (Petchburi)

National Parks Office, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, THAILAND

ABSTRACT

The research of long - term forest ecology by using permanent plots from the Department of the National parks, wildlife and plants conservation (DNP) has been proceeded by National Park Research and Innovation Center since 2010 majorly aimed at representing the ecology study of conserved forests in Thailand and monitoring the climate change impact. The permanent plot setting has combined with ecology approach in align with geographic information system (GIS). The selection is based on the location and plot sample that is synced with the size pixel in satellite imagery, tree location and tree canopy covers in the  plot samples, which are in line with global position system in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)  coordinating system as well as  dispersing analysis, plot covering space and other related spatial analysis. At present, the permanent plot proceeding covers 38 plots in 33 national parks and in 1 wildlife sanctuary in 9 different forest types.