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Understanding Rainforests

Monitoring Rainforest Processes

Global Teamwork

Welcome to the "Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System" project

“Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System” is a new European Research Council project.

This long-term interdisciplinary research project aims to construct a Pan-Tropical Observatory of Forest Function, to explore forest response to global change.  In Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America, we are developing long-term on-the-ground observations of forest dynamics, integrating them with complementary approaches including high frequency measurement of the climate-sensitivities of different components of the carbon cycle.  The project works with partners across the tropical nations, toward the shared scientific goals of documenting the key patterns, impacts and processes of change so far, and of understanding better the threat to forests from global change.

ForestPlots.net is hosting the different strands of data that emerge from this project from hundreds of sites.  This helps ensure standardised protocols are applied across continents, while allowing each partner access to the information from their long-term plots.

 

Soil pit - we dug into a coal mine apparently (photo: Lan Qie, Indonesia, 2014) Big Tree (photo: Lan Qie, Bako, 2013) The T-Forces Peru team in the San Alberto sector of Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén after a long day of sampling in the 2400 m plot. (Photo credit: Lisa Patrick Bentley) Oops, off the road - Bejange, Cameroon (photo: Martin Gilpin)