CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change
Autor: | Corneille E. N. Ewango, Xihua Wang, Jill Thompson, Stephen P. Hubbell, Kriangsak Sri-ngernyuang, Robin B. Foster, Xiankun Li, Geoffrey G. Parker, Michael D. Morecroft, Zhanqing Hao, Sandra L. Yap, Dairon Cárdenas, Jess K. Zimmerman, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Nimal Gunatilleke, James A. Lutz, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Sean M. McMahon, David F. R. P. Burslem, Marta I. Vallejo, Xiaojun Du, David A. Orwig, Eben N. Broadbent, Terese B. Hart, Witchaphart Sungpalee, Benjamin L. Turner, Yide Li, Renato Valencia, Sylvester Tan, Xugao Wang, Patrick A. Jansen, Shirong Liu, Stuart J. Davies, William J. McShea, Christian P. Giardina, Keith Clay, Xiangcheng Mi, Moses N. Sainge, Faith Inman-Narahari, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Christine Fletcher, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Jonathan Myers, Mamoru Kanzaki, David Kenfack, Xiaobao Deng, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Billy C.H. Hau, S. Joseph Wright, Alfonso Alonso, Savitri Gunatilleke, Daniel J. Johnson, H. S. Suresh, Gregory S. Gilbert, Rafizah Mat Serudin, Nathalie Butt, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Lisa Korte, Susan Cordell, Sean C. Thomas, Staline Kibet, I-Fang Sun, Lawren Sack, Amy Wolf, H. S. Dattaraja, Jan den Ouden, Yves Basset, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, George D. Weiblen, Alvaro Duque, Matteo Detto, Raman Sukumar, Tomáš Vrška, Yadvinder Malhi, Keping Ma, William W. Hargrove, Amy C. Bennett, Hervé Memiaghe, Damian M. Maddalena, Jean-Remy Makana, George B. Chuyong, María Uriarte, Andrew J. Larson, Jitendra Kumar, Toby R. Marthews, Shawn K. Y. Lum, Erika Gonzalez-Akre, Perry S. Ong, Kamariah Abu Salim, Kamil Král, Weiguo Sang, Forrest M. Hoffman, David L. Erikson, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Warren Y. Brockelman, Han Xu, Min Cao, Norman A. Bourg, Alberto Vicentini, Vojtech Novotny, Takashi Mizuno, Rebecca Ostertag, Duncan W. Thomas, Richard P. Phillips, Gunter A. Fischer, Mingxi Jiang |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
rain-forest
Conservation of Natural Resources Climate Change Biodiversity Climate change Forests dispersal limitation Ecosystem services Forest restoration Forest ecology seedling recruitment Environmental Chemistry Bosecologie en Bosbeheer el-nino functional traits spatial-patterns FLORESTAS TROPICAIS (MONITORAMENTO) Intact forest landscape General Environmental Science Global and Planetary Change Ecology Forest dynamics neotropical forest Agroforestry Global change PE&RC Forest Ecology and Forest Management phylogenetic structure tropical tree community Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Environmental science long-term nitrogen Environmental Monitoring |
Zdroj: | BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP Global Change Biology 21 (2015) 2 Global Change Biology, 21(2), 528-549 |
ISSN: | 1354-1013 |
Popis: | Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This review describes an international network of 59 long-term forest dynamics research sites (CTFS-ForestGEO) useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. Within very large plots (median size 25ha), all stems 1cm diameter are identified to species, mapped, and regularly recensused according to standardized protocols. CTFS-ForestGEO spans 25 degrees S-61 degrees N latitude, is generally representative of the range of bioclimatic, edaphic, and topographic conditions experienced by forests worldwide, and is the only forest monitoring network that applies a standardized protocol to each of the world's major forest biomes. Supplementary standardized measurements at subsets of the sites provide additional information on plants, animals, and ecosystem and environmental variables. CTFS-ForestGEO sites are experiencing multifaceted anthropogenic global change pressures including warming (average 0.61 degrees C), changes in precipitation (up to +/- 30% change), atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur compounds (up to 3.8g Nm(-2)yr(-1) and 3.1g Sm(-2)yr(-1)), and forest fragmentation in the surrounding landscape (up to 88% reduced tree cover within 5km). The broad suite of measurements made at CTFS-ForestGEO sites makes it possible to investigate the complex ways in which global change is impacting forest dynamics. Ongoing research across the CTFS-ForestGEO network is yielding insights into how and why the forests are changing, and continued monitoring will provide vital contributions to understanding worldwide forest diversity and dynamics in an era of global change. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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