Proyecto HERB (Ecología Hidrológica y Biodiversidad Regional).
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The HERB Project (Hydrology Ecology and Regional
Biodiversity). Proyecto HERB (Ecología Hidrológica y Biodiversidad Regional). |
The HERB project in Colombia is a collaborative programme between the Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK, the Universidad del Cauca, the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos "Alexander Von Humboldt" of the Colombian Ministry of Environment, CIAT and a number of other research groups in Colombia. The project employs field monitoring, geographical information systems and computer modelling to further understand the structure and function of tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF) ecosystems . In particular the project is examining :
The project is building an environmental monitoring capacity at a number of reserves in the Pacific Cloud forest of Colombia, particularly El Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Pacifico TAMBITO (Cauca), southern Colombia. This CDROM and website presents data, photography, GIS (Geographical Information Systems) imagery, model results, animations and reports from the ongoing research at Tambito.
This work is dedicated to the memory of the late Alvaro José Negret (1949-1998), Director of the Natural History Museum of the University of Cauca and founding manager of the Tambito nature reserve. The research presented here was only possible through the energetic and visionary scientific and conservation efforts of Dr. Negret. His energy and vision are needed now more than ever, if we are to understand and conserve the complex beauty of the fast-disappearing tropical montane cloud forests.
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