Choy's Ecology and Remote Sensing Lab
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
Climate change and cloudy mountains
We use synoptic sensing methods to integrate information acquired from ground, sky and space to investigate the impacts of climate change, mainly elevated temperatures and amplified seasonal droughts, on tropical and subtropical cloud/fog-affected montane forests and agroecosystems.
Students, postdocs and visiting scholars interested in the topics please contact me (email is at the bottom).
-- 2024 News --
05/12: CTS highlights our research about the impacts of climate change on Alishan tea quality industry and the agroecosystem. Link
05/08-11: We host Youngryel Ryu from Seoul National University to discuss the development of the SIF monitoring network. Link
05/04: Wu PC has been accepted by University at Buffalo and George Mason University graduate programs. Super congrats!
04/25: Tea leaf spectral research: Reconstructing fresh green leaf spectra in the SWIR-2 region (2001–2500 nm) collected in a humid environment by referring to publicly available green leaf spectral databases. Link
02/24: New montane cloud forest litterfall publication: Contribution of environmental factors to post-typhoon litterfall stability in subtropical montane cloud forests of the Asia-Pacific region. Link
01/31: Super congrats on Lino landed a tenure-tracked research position at the National Research and Innovation Agency.
-- Notable events --
2017/06/21-23: Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends in tree mortality as an indicator of forest health, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Hannover, Germany.
2014/10/20-23: International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Tree Mortality, the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Report Review
2013/09/04-06: A workshop on Remote Sensing of Vegetation Mortality: Challenges, Solutions, and Ecological Understanding. Santa Fe, NM, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Lab, NM, USA. Photo Publication Video
-- Highlights --
CTS (2024): Taiwan's montane cloud forest. Link
CBC (2023): La production de thé menacée par les changements climatiques à Taïwan. Link
BBC Radio (2023): Climate change and Alishan. Link
Getty Images (2023): Climate change and mountain tea plantation research. HTML
Brinno Inc. (2023): When time lapse meets fog in the mountain HTML
TTV (2023): Climate change and mountain tea regions Video 1 Video 2
National Science and Technology Council (2023): Impacts of typhoons on litter production in montane cloud forests. HTML
Daai TV (2023): The fog chaser Video
United Daily News (2023): Impacts of climate change on mountain tea farms and montane cloud forests HTML & Video
Taiwan Tea Monthly (2023): Cover image. PDF
The Reporter (2022): Climate change and Alishan high mountain tea. HTML
Global Association of MDP Programs (2021): MDP student research: Observational and numerical research of Taiwan's mountains. PDF
Malvern Panalytical (2019): Assessing forest canopy productivity using active and passive remote sensing. HTML
Cal Poly News (2017): Cal Poly assistant professor takes on vexing global problem of dying forests. HTML
F1000 Research (2017): Estimation of canopy water interception of a near-tropical montane cloud forest in Taiwan. HTML
Academia Sinica Highlights (2016): Rewrite a classical theory: When evolutionary biology encounters macroecology. PDF
NTU Highlights (2016): Daily variations have opposite effect to seasonal fluctuations on species distribution. HTML
AAAS EurekAlert! (2016): Tolerance to daily versus seasonal temperature changes may dictate fitness. HTML
Science Perspective (2016): Thermal trouble in the tropics. HTML
Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2016): Cover image. PDF
ScienceDaily (2015): Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death. HTML
The New York Times (2015): Climate change threatens to kill off more aspen forests by 2050s. HTML
Pacific Standard (2015): The trembling aspen Is in trouble. HTML
The Week (2015): How climate change is killing the aspen forests of the American Southwest. HTML
Colorado Public Radio (2015): Listen to aspen trees having 'heart attacks' due to drought. HTML
Nature World News (2015): Drought damage will cause widespread forest death by 2050. HTML
Woodworking Network (2015): Aspen trees threatened by hot droughts. HTML
The Independent (2015): Climate change could eliminate aspen forests in the western US. HTML
Carnegie Science highlight (2015): Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death. HTML
Trends in Plant Science (2015): Cover image. PDF
Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences (2014): Cover image. PDF
IOP highlight (2014): Vegetation in Taiwan is strongly affected by El Nino. HTML
Landsat news (2011): Consequences of aspen die-off. HTML
DIREnet highlight (2011): Large drought-induced aboveground live biomass losses in southern Rocky Mountain aspen forests. PDF
Photo gallery (2007): Postfire stand structure. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 88:23. PDF
-- Passengers and traces--
2023/05/25: Happy graduation to Chong JY! Photo
2022/10/12: We welcome Achmad Ghozali from Institut Teknologi Kalimantan (Indonesia) for an 8-week training
2019/12/30: We welcome Evan Liang, University of Western Australia Engineering major senior joining our lab this winter for 6 weeks.
2019/08/05: We welcome UCLA Civil Engineering major Ariel Kuo joining our lab this August.
2019/05/31: Time of year again for graduation. Super congrats to Lai GY, Tsai SF and Rau HT! Photo
2018/06/15: Happy graduation to Li XR! Photo
2017/07/11: Chung CH passed his dissertation with flying colors. Super congrats Dr. Chung!
2017/03/30: Our former undergraduate Liu PH has been admitted by the EBS University for Business and Law MBA program. Atta girl!
2017/07/03: We welcome Geography major Abbey Wong (KCL) and Venessa Ng (NUS) joining our lab this summer. Photo
2016/07/26: We welcome Tai TC, UCL Geography major sophomore and Basant Apurva, Lakeside HS junior joining our lab this summer.
2016/07/04: We welcome Stella Yuan, UCSD Environmental Sciences/Psychology major senior joining our lab this summer for 6 weeks.
2015/07/21: Miao R, a 3rd year Nankai University Environmental Sciences major college student is staying with our lab for 8 weeks for the NTU summer intern training program.
2015/06/14: Our lab's first PhD Wang H. Super congrats, Dr. Wang!
2014/07/02: We welcome Xiong D, a 3rd year UCLA Civil Engineering major college student. She will stay in our lab for 8 weeks for the NTU summer intern training program.
2014/06/06: Our Hu KT and former summer intern Liu PH will graduate this year. You go girls! Photo
Litterfall in Chilan Mountain (English)
Field NPP protocol (Chinese)
To the sunny side of the cloud forest (Chinese)
Aliproject 2023 (Chinese)
Aliproject 2024 (Chinese)
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