There is considerable disagreement in the research community concerning whether comfort standards developed in the temperate climates of Europe and North America are appropriate for use in countries with more extreme climatic conditions. This is because some researchers, mainly …
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The first essay analyzes the impact of two positive international trade policies on tropical deforestation in Indonesia: (1) a special incentives treatment under the current European Union (EU) Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for countries that meet the International Tro…
The search for explanations of how large numbers of tree species in species-rich tropical forests can exist has been a predominant focus of ecological research. Within biogeographic regions, lower tree species richness occurs in forests both on very nutrient-poor soils and on nu…
Prehistoric human diet is explored using skeletal material from late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeological sites in Malaysia. Studies of past subsistence in the Southeast Asian tropics have been few, in part due to poor preservation of organics. To circumvent this problem, stable …
Evapotranspiration is a nexus for planetary energy and carbon cycles, as yet poorly constrained. Here I use stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen to partition flux of water due to plant transpiration from the direct evaporative flux from soils, water bodies and plant. The study…
The evolution and structure of a dendritic peat deposit in the interior lowland of tropical Peninsular Malaysia is investigated as a viable archive of paleoecological and paleoclimatological changes. The project was initiated due to the lack of understanding fundamental processe…