Author(s): SIST, P.; RUTISHAUSER, E.; PEÑA-CLAROS, M.; SHENKIN, A.; HERAULT, B.; BLANC, L.; BARALOTO, C.; BAYA, F.; BENEDET, F.; SILVA, K. E. da; DESCROIX, L.; FERREIRA, J. N.; GOURLET-FLEURY, S.; GUEDES, M. C.; BIN HARUN, I.; JALONEN, R.; KANASHIRO, M.; KRISNAWATI, H.; KSHATRIYA, M.; LINCOLN, P.; MAZZEI, L.; MEDJIBÉ, V.; NASI, R.; OLIVEIRA, M. V. N. d'; OLIVEIRA, L. C. de; PICARD, N.; PIETSCH, S.; PINARD, M.; PRIYADI, H.; PUTZ, F. E.; RODNEY, K.; ROSSI, V.; ROOPSIND, A.; RUSCHEL, A. R.; ZAMAH SHARI, N. H.; SOUZA, C. R. de; SUSANTY, F. H.; SOTTA, E. D.; TOLEDO, M.; VIDAL, E.; WEST, T. A. P.; WORTEL, V.; YAMADA, T.

Summary: 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 biasis problematic given that logged and disturbed tropical forests are now covering a larger area thantheso-alled primary forests. A new network of permanent sample plots in logged forests, the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO), aims to ?ll 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.

Publication year: 2015

Types of publication: Journal article

Unit: Embrapa Western Amazon

Keywords: Biodiversidade, Ciclo do carbono, Ecosystem resilience, Floresta tropical, Florestas tropicais, Impacto ambiental, Investigación cooperativa, Mudanças climáticas, Pesquisa florestal, Silvicultura, Silvicultura tropical y subtropical, Tropical Forests managed Observatory (TmFO), Tropical managed Forests Observatory, biodiversity, carbon cycle, climate change, logging, silviculture, tropical forests