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RCFEE’s strategic research programs focus on three central themes:
- Sustainable use of forest and forest land;
- Forest ecology and physiology;
- Forest environment modeling, prediction and assessment.
These themes reflect major trend in Vietnam’s forest industry such as critical need of protecting and improving quality of natural forest, high demand on plantation product, changing in climate phenomenon regarding forest hydrology, and clean development mechanism.
Sustainable uses of forests and forestlandSustainable uses of forest and forestland require a deep understanding of the soil condition, the base material on which plant live and grow. With this principle in mind, forest soil and site condition are always at the centre of RCFEE’s research and development programs. As the founder of the Center, Prof. Do Dinh Sam and his successor Asoc.Prof. Hoang Xuan Ty, Asoc.Prof. Ngo Dinh Que, are leading soil scientist, RCFEE has a long tradition of studying forest soil dynamic since 1970s. Our research data covering all major vegetation types in Vietnam, from soil under dry open deciduous forest in Central Highland to mangrove forest in Mekong’s river wetland areas.
RCFEE has been appointed to implement several National Research Projects on soil nutrient cycling under plantation, rehabilitation forest. Our research output has resulted in improvement of forest management, guideline for production forest fertilizer, and accurate tree site matching procedure. Main research areas include:
Nutrient cycling under natural and production forest Forestland evaluation and species sellection Land use systems Sustainable site management Forest rehabilitation and afforestation Watershed management Application of GIS and RS for forest management and land use planning.
Watershed managment
Forest Ecology and PhysiologyRCFEE has a variety of staff expertises on forest ecology and plant physiology. RCFEE’s long-term research on forest plant physiology, tree nutrition, silviculture, experimental design and analysis have lead to solution for better forest management, improve seedling and nursering, enhanced nutrient and water management on production forest. Current research areas include: Forest Plant Community Ecology (phytosociology): - Quantitative analysis of forest plant vegetation for Indexes
- Forest Plant Dominace and Successionand
- Spatial Distribution Partterns of different Forest Communities and Species (A/F, D-D Curve)
- Species Biodiversity Measurement for Indexes (H, Sd, Sr and so on)
- Forest Alleloparthy/Allelopathic Effect/Chemical Ecology/Allochemical
- Plant Invasive Species
- Nutrient and Water Cycles in the Forest Systems
- Natural regeneration of natural secondary forest at various ecological regions
Forest Plant Autoecology:- Plant Photosynthesis and Light Regimes
- Plant Nutritions
- Plants in Relation to Water Requirements
- Plants in relation to other environmental conditions
- Plant Allelopathy
 Lighting requirement experiment
Forest environment monitoring, prediction and assessmentFocus on forest environment monitoring, prediction, and assessment is the new paradigm-ship in RCFEE research program. As today forest has become an important industry, there is a need to standardize its activities with other component of economic system. It is necessary to evaluate different aspect of the forest, continues monitoring its interaction with surrounding environment and predicts future trend through modeling tool. RCFEE research interest includes the followings: Vulnerable ecological system Soil erosion modeling Monitoring and evaluation of forest plantation and rehabilitation Mangrove forest system interaction with aqua-culture Slash and burn agriculture and sloping land cultivation Forest hydrology monitoring Forest economical valuation Clean Development Mechanism for Forestry (AR CDM) Impact of industry and agriculture activities on forest ecology.
Soil erosion assment using GIS. Bac Kan province |
