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The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests |
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| Authors: | Plinio Sist Ervan Rutishauser Marielos Peña-Claros Alexander Shenkin Bruno Hérault Lilian Blanc Christopher Baraloto Fidèle Baya Fabrice Benedet Katia Emidio da Silva Laurent Descroix Joice Nunes Ferreira Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Marcelino Carneiro Guedes Ismail Bin Harun Riina Jalonen Milton Kanashiro Haruni Krisnawati Mrigesh Kshatriya Philippa Lincoln Lucas Mazzei Vincent Medjibé Robert Nasi Marcus Vinicius N d'Oliveira Luis C de Oliveira Nicolas Picard Stephan Pietsch Michelle Pinard Hari Priyadi Francis E Putz Ken Rodney Vivien Rossi Anand Roopsind Ademir Roberto Ruschel Nur Hajar Zamah Shari Cintia Rodrigues de Souza Farida Herry Susanty Eleneide Doff Sotta Marisol Toledo Edson Vidal Thales AP West Verginia Wortel Toshihiro Yamada |
| Institution: | 1. CarboForExpert (carboforexpert.ch), Geneva, Switzerland;2. Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands;3. School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;4. INRA, UMR EcoFoG, Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana;5. Cirad, UR 105 TA/10C, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France;6. Ministère des Eaux Forêts Chasse et Pêche, BP 3314 Bangui, Central African Republic;7. Amazonia Central, EMBRAPA, Manaus, Brazil;8. ONF-Guyane, Réserve de Montabo, Cayenne, French Guiana;9. Amazonia Oriental, EMBRAPA, Belém, Brazil;10. Amapa, EMBRAPA, Macapa, Brazil;11. FRIM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;12. Bioversity, Serdang, Malaysia;13. FORDA, Bogor, Indonesia;14. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia;15. LTS International, Edinburgh, UK;16. Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon, Gabon & Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, North Carolina, USA;17. Embrapa Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil;18. Cirad, Yaoundé, Cameroon;19. Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria;20. University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK;21. Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Alnarp Sweden and Cifor Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Bogor, Indonesia;22. Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;23. Iwokrama, Georgetown, Guyana;24. IBIF, Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal, Santa Cruz, Bolivia;25. Departamento de Ciências Florestais ESALQ/Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil;26. Biodiversity Department, CELOS, Paramaribo, Surinam;27. Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan |
| Abstract: | While attention on logging in the tropics has been increasing, studies on the long-term effects of silviculture on forest dynamics and ecology remain scare and spatially limited. Indeed, most of our knowledge on tropical forests arises from studies carried out in undisturbed tropical forests. This bias is problematic given that logged and disturbed tropical forests are now covering a larger area than the so-called primary forests. A new network of permanent sample plots in logged forests, the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO), aims to fill this gap by providing unprecedented opportunities to examine long-term data on the resilience of logged tropical forests at regional and global scales. TmFO currently includes 24 experimental sites distributed across three tropical regions, with a total of 490 permanent plots and 921 ha of forest inventories. |
| Keywords: | Biodiversity Carbon cycle Climate change Ecosystem resilience Logging Silviculture Tropical managed Forests Observatory Tropical forests |