Site: Sinharaja
Country: Sri Lanka
Site PI: Sisira Ediriweera
Data Type:
Availabilty: Approve
About Data: The Sinharaja FDP is maintained and regularly censused by researchers at the Faculty of Applied Science, Uva Wellassa University, with the approval and co-operation of the Forest Department of Sri Lanka. The Sinharaja FDP project requires an enormous field effort for its maintenance, harnessing the skills of both the university and local village communities, and also finding funding sources for repeated censuses and related research and education programmes. The multi-year data set of the Sinharaja plot is used regularly for undergraduate and post-graduate research at the Faculty of Applied Science, Uva Wellassa University, as well as in other bilateral and multi-lateral collaborative projects. If a proposed data use is deemed to overlap too closely with current or planned use, the PIs and their collaborators will have priority and a request may be declined. As a necessary step towards in-country capacity building and technical support, the plot PIs encourage, and give preference to, data requesters who are willing to contribute towards: i) capacity building at the Uva Wellassa University and the Forest Department of Sri Lanka, and ii) providing logistic support through the donation of consumables/equipment/software etc. for research.