Researchers
Wirong Chanthorn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Principal Investigator I have broad interests in community ecology and ecosystem functioning as well as sustainability science. As a scientist, one of my aims is to promote scientific-based sustainable policies. Forest resilience and biotic interactions have long been my interesting topics, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. I embarked my research career by studying biotic interactions such as plant-animal (seed dispersal) interaction on the large permanent ForesGEO plot, namely “Mo Singto”. This plot, has fully mapped trees, providing hidden valuable data that reveals ecological patterns and processes. One of my current research projects involves extracting ecological information using advanced spatial statistics. The presence of past deforestation in the same landscape as this intact forest has been a profound motivation for my extensive research on forest resilience and succession, spanning over a decade. In our site, forests in certain areas lose its resilience and becomes alternative stable state such as bare soil. These issues require new technologies to investigate these questions at different scales in a landscape. Thus, my research is also to apply remote sensing to examine tropical forests across scales, Currently, I serve on the advisory committee of GEOTREES, a global network of scientists, aiming to provide forest biomass data with high accuracy for remote sensing applications. |
Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Ph.D.
Research Fellow My research focuses on understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change and human activities on species and their habitats in order to improve our decision-making process in biodiversity conservation. Moreover, I explore plant species’ spatial patterns and their relationships with the environment to enhance our understanding of plant community dynamics. To achieve these goals, I employ a diverse range of advanced spatial and non-spatial modeling techniques in my studies." |
Alumni
Pornwiwan Pothasin, Ph.D. Research fellow, currently working as an assistant professor at Mahidol University I graduated from Chiang Mai University (MSc. And Ph.D.) and currently pursue my career as a research fellow in this lab. My expertise is a plant ecology, concentrating on phenology and reproductive ecology of riparian figs (ficus spp.) in Thailand. Driven by a desire to understand how plant interacts with each other and underlying processes, my current research here focuses on using seed traits and phylogenetic data to examine an assembly of tropical tree and liana community and interspecific variation of seed size. In the meantime, I continue my research on the evolutionary-ecology of figs and fig wasps and speciation in Asian figs pollinators and parasites. Patcharapan Tripob
Master student, currently working as sustainability at a company I am a master student of the Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University. I am interested in a mechanistic link between functional traits and ecosystem functioning of tropical forest. My current research investigates intraspecific variations (both intrinsic and extrinsic sources) in wood specific gravity and wood carbon concentration. I also study their consequences on accuracy and precision of above-ground biomass and carbon estimates of secondary and old growth tropical forests. |
Noppawan Lomwong
Master student, currently working as a researcher at the Chanthorn's lab I have completed my bachelor degree in environmental science and technology, Kasetsart University. I received a scholarship from the Graduate School of Kasetsart University for studying a master degree at the Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University. For my research, I am currently interested in liana diversity across a success gradient of Khao Yai National Park. |