In article ,
(Truong Thi) wrote:
I'm researching about coastal dunes in the south of Viet Nam,I need a
botany name list in the south Viet Nam's dunes,especially in Ba Ria
Vung Tau province,beside that,I want to know if there are any studies
about coastal dune here and how they are?I'm very happy to be sent
some documents about this subject.Thankyou very much!

Furthermore, if you enter

plants Ba Ria Vung Tau

you'll only get about 650 hits, and a lot of those are about power
plants. :-)

[ Seems the region is a major centre of thermo-power plants? ]

The most likely "plant" link I saw was at

http://www.baria-vungtau.info/englis...ties/index.php

and that one was just the typical PR blurb with no information:
quoting
Besides beaches and lakes mentioned above, Ba Ria-Vung Tau also has
two primeval forests such as The Binh Chau Phuoc Buu Nature
Preservation Park with an area of 11,293 hectares, and Con Dao
National Park stretching on area of 6,043 hectares with various rare
plants and animals, suitable to ecological tourism on sea and forests.
/quoting

But here's a more specific reference to the ecology of the area:

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/binh-chau/report.html

which includes this quote:
"Among plants, Nguyen Bich Thao lists 217 tree species (33% of total
species count), 158 ground cover plants (24%), 147 timber species
(22%), 73 climbers, 29 bushes, 23 epiphytes, 14 orchids. Thao's survey
found several Red Book-listed endangered plants: Xylopia pierri,
Siphodnodon celastrineus, Tetrameles nudiflora, Hemiscolpia trimera,
Irvingtonia malayana."
which comes from a not very accessible document:
Nguyen Bich Thao (1995) Phan Tich Tinh Da Dang Sinh Hoc Khu Bao Ton
Thien Nhien Binh Chau - Phuoc Buu Tinh Ba Ria - Vung Tau
[Multi-disciplinary Scientific Analysis of the Binh Chau - Phuoc Buu
Forest Reserve Area, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province]. Unpublished Thesis.
Hanoi: National University of Vietnam - Hanoi.

Hope this helps. (But I'm buggered if I know why I've bothered with
this -- I can only put it down to being latish Friday night and I'm
3/4 ****ed! Hic!


Cheers, Phred.

--
LID