Abstract
Original language | English |
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Article number | 108849 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Biological Conservation |
Volume | 260 |
Early online date | 27 Jul 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2021 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgmentsThis paper is a product of the RAINFOR, AfriTRON and T-FORCES networks and the many other partner networks in ForestPlots.net which support long-term forest science and monitoring across tropical countries. These initiatives have been supported by numerous people and grants since their inception. We are particularly indebted to more than one thousand four hundred field assistants for their essential help in establishing and maintaining the plots, as well as highly distributed rural communities and institutions. For additional assistance we thank Michel Baisie, Wemo Betian, Vincent Bezard, Mireille Breuer-Ndoundou Hockemba, Ezequiel Chavez, Douglas Daly, Armandu Daniels, Eduardo Hase, Muhammad Idhamsyah, Phillipe Jeanmart, Cisquet Keibou Opepa, Jeanette Kemp, Antonio Lima, Jon Lloyd, Mpanya Lukasu, Sam Moore, Klaus Scipal and Rodrigo Sierra. We thank Mark Burkitt for help developing the ForestPlots.net database. We acknowledge the long-term help provided by national and local government offices in all countries where colleagues work in facilitating the permission and documentation for fieldwork, as well as help provided by protected area and other authorities.
The networks have been supported by multiple grants, most notably the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant 291585 – ‘T-FORCES’), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (#1656 ‘RAINFOR’, and #5349 'MonANPeru'), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union's Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Framework Programme (EVK2-CT-1999-00023 – ‘CARBONSINK-LBA’, 283080 – ‘GEOCARBON’, 282664 – ‘AMAZALERT’), the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/D005590/1 – ‘TROBIT’, NE/F005806/1 – ‘AMAZONICA’, ‘PPFOR’ E/M0022021/1), several NERC Urgency and New Investigators Grants, the NERC/State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) consortium grants ‘BIO-RED’ (NE/N012542/1, 2012/51872-5), ‘ECOFOR’ (NE/K016431/1, 2012/51509-8), ‘ARBOLES’ (NE/S011811/1), ‘SEOSAW‘ (NE/P008755/1), ‘SECO’ (NE/T01279X/1), ‘NORDESTE’ (NE/N012550/1, 2015/50488-5), the Royal Society (University Research Fellowships and Global Challenges Awards) (‘FORAMA’, ICA/R1/180100), the National Geographic Society, the Centre for International Forestry (CIFOR), Gabon's National Parks Agency (ANPN), US National Science Foundation (DEB 1754647), and Colombia's Colciencias. We thank the National Council for Science and Technology Development of Brazil (CNPq) for support to the Cerrado/Amazonia Transition Long-Term Ecology Project (PELD/441244/2016-5), the PPBio Phytogeography of Amazonia/Cerrado Transition project (CNPq/PPBio/457602/2012-0), the Goiás Research Foundation (FAPEG/PELD: 2017/10267000329), and several PVE and Productivity Grants. Funding for plots in the Udzungwa Mountains (Tanzania) was obtained from the Leverhulme Trust under the Valuing the Arc project. Plots in the Democratic Republic of Congo were funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (SD/AR/01A/COBIMFO, BR/132/A1/AFRIFORD, BR/143/A3/HERBAXYLAREDD, CongoFORCE), the Flemish Interuniversity Council VLIR-UOS (CD2018TEA459A103, FORMONCO II), and the European Union (REAFOR, FORETS projects). We acknowledge grant CEBA (ref. ANR-10-LABX-25-01) and the support of the Forestry Development Authority of Liberia. We also acknowledge the support of the European Space Agency. Data from RAINFOR, AfriTRON and T-FORCES are stored and curated at ForestPlots.net, a cyber-infrastructure initiative developed at the University of Leeds that unites permanent plot records and supports scientists from the world's tropical forests. The development of ForestPlots.net and curation of data has been funded by several grants including NE/B503384/1, NE/N012542/1 ‘BIO-RED’, ERC Advanced Grant 291585 ‘T-FORCES’, NE/F005806/1 ‘AMAZONICA’, NERC New Investigators Awards, NE/N004655/1, ‘TREMOR’, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (‘RAINFOR’, ‘MonANPeru’), ERC Starter Grant 758873 ‘TreeMort’, EU Framework 6, a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
Keywords
- Amazonia
- Africa
- Southeast Asia
- Rainforest
- RAINFOR
- AfriTRON
- Species richness
- Forest plots
- Permanent sample plots
- Monitoring
- Dynamics
- Carbon sink
- Global change
- Ecology
- Biodiversity