September 2016
Written By Louise Ashton
Here is a long overdue photo blog update from our last TART field trip!
We started our field trip with a visit to the new research facility at Imbak Canyon. This was a fun side trip to see the facility and a different part of Sabah. Imbak is very beautiful and the new facility is massive, perhaps a good place to do research in the future.
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Beautiful Imbak Canyon
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Paul and a glivus mound
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A tour of Imbak Canyon
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Drive to the forest
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Getting into the forest
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View from a walking track at Imbak
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Bridge at Imbak Canyon
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Imbak Falls
Back to Maliau, we set up multiple expeirments on our termite and ant suppresson plots.
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Our amazing team!
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Paul with dummy caterpillar
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Toilet roll termite monitoring
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Wood from control (left) and termite suppression (right) plots
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Setting up decomposition experiments
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Herbivory experiment
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A drone!
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Termites rebuliding their mound
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Seedling with plant available nutrient probes
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Tullgren funnels
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Masters student Alice Walker making grubs
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Ali, Elvie, Yunita and Rita
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PhD student Daf collecting microbe samples
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Soil samples
We came across some amazing wildlife while working in the forest and went on some night walks to look for nocturanal wild life.
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Bush cricket
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Centipede
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Marbled cat - first sighting at Maliau
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Weevil
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Juvenile flycatcher
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Cicada
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Hemiptera
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Huge earthworm
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Bat living in our house
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Malay civet in the toilet
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Dipterocarp seed germinating
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Sun bear foot print
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Small snake (not sure what sp, anyone know?)
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Caterpillar (that stung me!)