{"id":909,"date":"2021-09-15T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/?p=909"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:32:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:32:44","slug":"assessment-and-conservation-of-forest-over-limestone-ecosystem-biodiversity-in-selected-municipalities-of-samar-island-philippines-conserve-kaigangan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/2021\/09\/15\/assessment-and-conservation-of-forest-over-limestone-ecosystem-biodiversity-in-selected-municipalities-of-samar-island-philippines-conserve-kaigangan\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment and CONservation of Forest over Limestone Ecosystem Biodiversity in Selected Municipalities of Samar Island, Philippines (CONserve-KAIGANGAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elaine Villanueva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONserve-KAIGANGAN is a research program funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) under the Grants-in-Aid (GIA) Program. The program has four interrelated project components with their respective objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 1: Assessment of Biodiversity in Forest over Limestone Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Determine plant diversity and vegetation structure in various habitat types in the forest over limestone;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Determine animal diversity associated with forest over limestone;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Identify functional attributes of the vegetation with its associated animal diversity; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Analyze environmental factors influencing the prevailing structure of the biota.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Project 2: Ethnobotanical Survey, Usage Validation and Safety Assessment of Economically Important Native plants in Forest over Limestone Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Provide an ethnobotanical account of the plants from forests over limestone areas with economic and cultural values utilized by the local community;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Validate documented applications through proximate composition analysis and secondary metabolite profiling; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Assessment of possible risks of using plants through toxicity and mutagenicity testing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Project 3: Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Profiling of Soil Rhizosphere Microbial Communities in Forest over Limestone Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Isolate and cultivate selected ecologically important microbial groups;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Describe the taxonomic and functional diversity profile of bacterial and fungal community of soil rhizosphere samples using metagenomic analysis; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Correlate the distribution and function of bacterial and fungal communities with existing physico-chemical parameters of the soil in relation to ecosystem health and conservation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Project 4: Community-Based Conservation of Plants in Forest over Limestone Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. Engage the local community to survey and map the distribution of threatened plant species (with emphasis on mother trees\/plants) for in-situ conservation purposes;
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        2. Strategize a community-based ex-situ scheme for germplasm conservation of threatened species with includes nursery establishment, studies on seedling propagation, and its distribution to different institutions;
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        3. Produce communication, education and public awareness (CEPA) materials for the conservation of forests over limestone; and
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        4. Develop an Indicative Conservation Plan for the selected forests over limestone areas of Samar Island.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Elaine Villanueva CONserve-KAIGANGAN is a research program funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) under the Grants-in-Aid (GIA) Program. The program has four interrelated project components with their respective objectives: Project 1: Assessment of Biodiversity in Forest over Limestone Ecosystem Project 2: Ethnobotanical Survey, Usage Validation and Safety Assessment of Economically Important Native […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projwebdb.com\/kaigangan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}