Research

My Ph.D. research focus is on Entropy in the tropical forest ecosystems. In summary my research focus is to evaluate the complexity and structural diversity of tropical forest ecosystems. This will be accomplished through an examination of the distribution of diverse forest inventory data, such as canopy height, basal area, and biomass, across varying successional stages, and an evaluation of forest structure changes over time. My research aims to gain novel insights into the functioning and dynamics of these ecosystems, thereby contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of their evolutionary patterns. Ultimately, I seek to develop a reliable index for measuring changes and structural complexity and diversity in tropical forests.

Tropical forest ecosystems are extremely diverse in terms of species richness and diversity. Of all overall tropical ecosystems, tropical moist and rain forests have the highest structural complexity and are biologically diverse compared to other tropical forests such as Tropical Dry Forests (TDF). These characteristics make tropical forest ecosystems an ideal first-choice ecosystem for evaluating entropy-based research. As a result my research aims to give a more complete understanding of the nexus between entropy and forest ecology by addressing a crucial gap in this field: the relationship between entropy and structural complexity in secondary tropical forests. It will be able to develop a novel index to estimate entropy and structural complexity of secondary tropical forest ecosystem.