ScienceAsia 33 Supplement 1 (2007): 059-063 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2007.33(s1).059

Biodiversity Research and Training Program: Ten Years of Progress

Visut Baimai* and Warren Y. Brockelman**

 
ABSTRACT: The Biodiversity Research and Training Program (BRT) began funding research on many aspects of biodiversity in 1995. We summarize the achievements of the program over its first 10 years of operation in terms of students trained, publications produced and other indicators, and comment on the success of the program in achieving its objectives. The achievements so far have been impressive, but are uneven in terms of the research areas furthered, taxonomic groups studied, and institutions affected. Suggestions are made for future funding priorities to broaden the reach of the program over areas and institutions not well covered. Targeted development of research manpower and training activities in priority research areas and in weak institutions is seen as critical.

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.

*, ** Corresponding authors, E-mails: scvbm@mahidol.ac.th* and wybrock@cscoms.com**