Dynamic Relationship Between Land Cover and Soil Properties in the Tropical Montane Forest

This research is focused on investigating the spatial and temporal variation of soil properties particularly soil moisture.

Soil moisture is a life sustaining entity for vegetation growth and also impacts soil evaporation and transpiration. The existing land cover in Chiangmai, Northern Thailand presents tropical montane forest types including the tropical evergreen and the dry dipterocarp forest, as well as land uses including agriculture. It is hypothesized that soil moisture is different across different land use and land cover types as well as across the wet and dry seasons.

This research will describe and analyse the differences and attempt to account for the factors that may pose an influences such as the disturbance of fire in the dry season.