1. The tropical managed forests observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests
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Stephan A. Pietsch, Plinio Sist, Bruno Hérault, Christopher Baraloto, Marisol Toledo, Edson Vidal, Anand Roopsind, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Luís Cláudio de Oliveira, Marielos Peña-Claros, Cintia Rodrigues de Souza, H. Priyadi, Thales A.P. West, Alexander Shenkin, Lucas Mazzei, Riina Jalonen, Eleneide Doff Sotta, Haruni Krisnawati, Robert Nasi, Ken Rodney, Verginia Wortel, Ismail Bin Harun, Fidèle Baya, Vivien Rossi, Nur Hajar Zamah Shari, Kátia Emídio da Silva, Vincent P. Medjibe, Fabrice Bénédet, Michelle A. Pinard, Farida Herry Susanty, Ervan Rutishauser, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Lilian Blanc, Francis E. Putz, Laurent Descroix, Ademir Roberto Ruschel, Milton Kanashiro, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Toshihiro Yamada, Joice Ferreira, Marcus Vinícius Neves d'Oliveira, Philippa R. Lincoln, Nicolas Picard, Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux : l'enjeu du changement global (Cirad-Es-UPR 105 BSEF), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), CarboForExpert, Wageningen University and Research Centre [Wageningen] (WUR), School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Florida [Gainesville], Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford [Oxford], Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (UMR ECOFOG), Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AgroParisTech-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Ministère Centrafricain des Eaux, Forêts, Chasses et Pêches (MEFCP), Amazonia Central, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Réserve de Montabo, Office National des Forêts (ONF), Amazonia Oriental, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Biodiversity International, Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), LTS International, Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University [Durham], Embrapa Acre, Embrapa Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien [Vienne, Autriche] (BOKU), University of Aberdeen, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Biology, Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal (IBIF), Departamento de Ciencias Florestais, University of São Paulo, Biodiversity Department, Center for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS), Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Biens et services des écosystèmes forestiers tropicaux : l'enjeu du changement global (UPR BSEF), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR)
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Sylviculture ,Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests ,P40 - Météorologie et climatologie ,Tropical forests ,Biodiversity ,forêt tropicale ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Tropical managed Forests Observatory ,K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales ,Climate change ,Bosecologie en Bosbeheer ,Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ,Silviculture ,Bodembiologie ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Changement climatique ,Forest inventory ,Ecology ,Forest dynamics ,Agroforestry ,Tropical managed forests Observatory ,Logging ,Tropics ,Soil Biology ,Carbon cycle ,15. Life on land ,PE&RC ,Forest Ecology and Forest Management ,K10 - Production forestière ,Geography ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Cycle du carbone ,Ecosystem resilience ,Écosystème - 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.
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- 2015
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