Relevant article

[Cam Webb]

Dear Mastwatchers,

I was recently asked to write a short description of the Mastwatch
project and mailing list for the Malayan Nature Journal. The resulting
PDF is at [1]. The article covers the project’s history and a very
general summary of the total numbers of observations and members’
regions. I was grateful that Colin Maycock agreed to join me, since
over the years he has been the top contributor to Mastwatch. We did not
include any analyses or maps; this would need a collaborative paper with
more Mastwatch contributors. But I do think there is a lot of valuable
data contained in our various posts: the beginnings of a comprehensive
documentation of SE Asian masts in time and space, which could also draw
on other historical records, and on phenology data derived from
herbarium specimens and citizen science observations.

Fortuitously, I was also recently contacted by team at University of
Queensland who plan just such a broad study, and they are keen to
include data from Mastwatch posts. They will introduce themselves here
shortly.

The list has been quiet recently... please do let us know if you have
observed any recent mast flowerings or fruiting, small or large.

Best wishes,

Cam


[1]: https://camwebb.info/files/webb+maycock2022_mastwatch.pdf

[Sepilok2010]

Thanks Cam,

I gather there is a bit of a fruiting in eastern Sabah, but don't have any details as I am now more office/West coast based. I will ask my forestry contacts if they have details.

Colin

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[Ferry Slik]

Ah, nice!

I tried to report that Andulau forest reserve in Brunei is full of flowering trees at the moment. We have durians, taraps, nangka's, jackfruit, Prainea, Baccaurea's, many dipterocarps and many more fruiting at the moment. This is an interesting moment because the swine flue has killed almost all pigs, meaning that many fruits actually germinate without being eaten.....

Regards,

Ferry Slik
Professor & Curator of the UBD Herbarium
Faculty of Science
Universiti Brunei Darussalam,
Jln Tungku Link, Gadong, BE1410, Brunei Darussalam.

Website
https://expert.ubd.edu.bn/johan.slik

Plants of Southeast Asia
http://www.asianplant.net

UBD Herbarium website

http://ubdherbarium.fos.ubd.edu.bn/

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[Siew Te Wong]

Hi all, 

Good update. 

Here in Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve in Sabah, we experienced a tiny fruiting event. On June this year, a Parashorea tomentella was fruiting but these seed dropped prematurely. 

Last week I came across mature seeds of Cotylelobium melanoxylon on the forest floor of Rainforest Discovery Centre. 

Hope this is helpful. 

Wong 

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[Francis Brearley]

Dear All,

 

Good to see this nice little paper out and hopefully our small contributions over the years have been helpful.

 

In contrast to the recent results from Brunei and Sabah, I’m just back from Barito Ulu in the geographical centre of Borneo and there was no indication of any masting activity there.

 

All the best,

 

Francis

 

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Hi all, 

Good update. 

Here in Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve in Sabah, we experienced a tiny fruiting event. On June this year, a Parashorea tomentella was fruiting but these seed dropped prematurely. 

Last week I came across mature seeds of Cotylelobium melanoxylon on the forest floor of Rainforest Discovery Centre. 

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