was discovered on Mount Tambuyukon in the north of Kinabalu Park during ecological fieldwork.
The book is divided into four "directions": ecological, fieldwork, critical, and textual.
As part of ecological fieldwork undertaken in 2010 2013 a distinctive Pittosporum was found on the main summit ridge of Mount Tambuyukon, which is described here.
More recently, I am developing projects on ecological networks, including original fieldwork in Madagascar on insect vectors and the agents they transmit to mammals in disturbed and undisturbed environments.
The argument is grounded on our fieldworks on the ecological wisdom of living with floods in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in two hamlets, Vinh An and Ha Bao, where flooding is mostly harmless and brings benefits.
Advice of soil chemical and physical analysis procedures; J.W. Soil analyses and collation of data; D.K. writing of paper; D.P. Advice on bioinformatics strategies; J.M.A. Initial study concept and broad design, participation in fieldwork, interpretation of data in ecological terms and writing of paper.
I have conducted ornithological fieldwork in Alaska, Angola, Colorado, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Turkey and Uganda to investigate the ecological factors behind the extinction-proneness of certain groups, such as tropical understory insectivores.
The question of how to promote a culture of ecological sustainability in China took me this summer to conduct exploratory fieldwork among the Blang minority nationality, in Yunnan province, close to the border between China and Myanmar.
Thanks to Anna Macagno, the Institute of Primate Research, the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, and Colobus Conservation Limited for logistic support during the fieldwork.
Taylor says what struck him from his fieldwork was a "sense that nature is sacred, deep ecological ethics in which all living things have inherent value … what struck me right from the beginning [of my fieldwork] was the extent to which religious terminology was deeply infused in radical environmental subculture".
Therefore, it is evident that it is important to do careful fieldwork and to consider the variation of macroscopical and ecological features before they are used for taxonomic purposes, especially characters related to colouration.
