On the first complex zoological and botanical expedition of the Russian-Vietnamese tropical center

Investigations of a biodiversity of terrestrial and water ecosystems - one of three main goals of created in 1987 Soviet (Russian)-Vietnamese Tropical research and technological center. Carrying out these researches has been begun on field stations, first of which has been created in Ma Da forestry. For expansion of geography of researches a series of complex zoological and botanical expeditions to various nature reserves and national parks of the Vietnam has been begun, first of which have taken place in 1996 to the Fan Si Pan mountain range. However, actually the first similar complex expedition should be considered which has taken place in 1989 in Cuc Phuong national park. The beginning of long-term monitoring of the reforestation processes for what several plot areas have been put was its main goal. Unfortunately, because of sharp deterioration in an economic situation and the followed collapse of the USSR, that expedition to Cuc Phuong remained single. Nevertheless, considerable results on processes of reforestation and on systematics and ecology of lizards have been received.

Vietnam, Tropical center, zoological and botanical research, Cuc Phuong National park