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CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

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2015-01-01

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Article

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13652486
13541013

DOI

10.1111/gcb.12712

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2-s2.0-84923166753

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Mahidol University

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Global Change Biology. Vol.21, No.2 (2015), 528-549

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Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Stuart J. Davies, Amy C. Bennett, Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre, Helene C. Muller-Landau, S. Joseph Wright, Kamariah Abu Salim, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Alfonso Alonso, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Yves Basset, Norman A. Bourg, Eben N. Broadbent, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F.R.P. Burslem, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Dairon Cardenas, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Xiaobao Deng, Matteo Detto, Xiaojun Du, Alvaro Duque, David L. Erikson, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Gunter A. Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Robin B. Foster, Christian P. Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, William W. Hargrove, Terese B. Hart, Billy C.H. Hau, Fangliang He, Forrest M. Hoffman, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Daniel J. Johnson, Mamoru Kanzaki, Abdul Rahman Kassim, David Kenfack, Staline Kibet, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Lisa Korte, Kamil Kral, Jitendra Kumar, Andrew J. Larson, Yide Li, Xiankun Li, Shirong Liu, Shawn K.Y. Lum, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Damian M. Maddalena, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Marthews, Rafizah Mat Serudin, Sean M. Mcmahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Takashi Mizuno, Michael Morecroft, Jonathan A. Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Jan den Ouden, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, Moses N. Sainge CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology. Vol.21, No.2 (2015), 528-549. doi:10.1111/gcb.12712 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/36023

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CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

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Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
 Stuart J. Davies
 Amy C. Bennett
 Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre
 Helene C. Muller-Landau
 S. Joseph Wright
 Kamariah Abu Salim
 Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano
 Alfonso Alonso
 Jennifer L. Baltzer
 Yves Basset
 Norman A. Bourg
 Eben N. Broadbent
 Warren Y. Brockelman
 Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
 David F.R.P. Burslem
 Nathalie Butt
 Min Cao
 Dairon Cardenas
 George B. Chuyong
 Keith Clay
 Susan Cordell
 Handanakere S. Dattaraja
 Xiaobao Deng
 Matteo Detto
 Xiaojun Du
 Alvaro Duque
 David L. Erikson
 Corneille E.N. Ewango
 Gunter A. Fischer
 Christine Fletcher
 Robin B. Foster
 Christian P. Giardina
 Gregory S. Gilbert
 Nimal Gunatilleke
 Savitri Gunatilleke
 Zhanqing Hao
 William W. Hargrove
 Terese B. Hart
 Billy C.H. Hau
 Fangliang He
 Forrest M. Hoffman
 Robert W. Howe
 Stephen P. Hubbell
 Faith M. Inman-Narahari
 Patrick A. Jansen
 Mingxi Jiang
 Daniel J. Johnson
 Mamoru Kanzaki
 Abdul Rahman Kassim
 David Kenfack
 Staline Kibet
 Margaret F. Kinnaird
 Lisa Korte
 Kamil Kral
 Jitendra Kumar
 Andrew J. Larson
 Yide Li
 Xiankun Li
 Shirong Liu
 Shawn K.Y. Lum
 James A. Lutz
 Keping Ma
 Damian M. Maddalena
 Jean Remy Makana
 Yadvinder Malhi
 Toby Marthews
 Rafizah Mat Serudin
 Sean M. Mcmahon
 William J. McShea
 Hervé R. Memiaghe
 Xiangcheng Mi
 Takashi Mizuno
 Michael Morecroft
 Jonathan A. Myers
 Vojtech Novotny
 Alexandre A. de Oliveira
 Perry S. Ong
 David A. Orwig
 Rebecca Ostertag
 Jan den Ouden
 Geoffrey G. Parker
 Richard P. Phillips
 Lawren Sack
 Moses N. Sainge

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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
 National Zoological Park
 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
 UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
 Stanford University
 University of Alabama
 National Zoological Park
 Wilfrid Laurier University
 Mahidol University
 National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand
 University of Aberdeen
 University of Queensland
 University of Oxford
 Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming
 Institute of Amazonian Research-Sinchi
 University of Buea
 Indiana University
 USDA Forest Service
 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
 Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Universidad Nacional de Colombia
 Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestière (CEFRECOF) Epulu
 Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
 Forest Research Institute Malaysia
 Field Museum of Natural History
 University of California, Santa Cruz
 University of Peradeniya
 Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation
 The University of Hong Kong
 University of Alberta
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 University of Wisconsin Green Bay
 University of California, Los Angeles
 University of Hawaii at Manoa
 Wageningen University and Research Centre
 Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Kyoto University
 National Museums of Kenya
 University of Nairobi
 Mpala Research Centre
 Wildlife Conservation Society
 Silva Tarouca Research Institute
 University of Montana
 Chinese Academy of Forestry
 Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 National Institute of Education, Singapore
 Utah State University
 Wildlife Conservation Society
 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
 CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
 Natural England
 Washington University in St. Louis
 New Guinea Binatang Research Centre
 Jihoceska Univerzita v Ceskuch Budejovicich
 Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo
 University of the Philippines Diliman
 Harvard Forest
 University of Hawaii at Hilo
 Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG) Cameroon
 Maejo University
 National Dong Hwa University
 Forest Department Sarawak
 University of Toronto
 Washington State University Vancouver
 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
 University of Puerto Rico, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
 Columbia University in the City of New York
 Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
 Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota
 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia

Abstract

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 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 25 ha), all stems ≥1 cm diameter are identified to species, mapped, and regularly recensused according to standardized protocols. CTFS-ForestGEO spans 25°S-61°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 °C), changes in precipitation (up to ±30% change), atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur compounds (up to 3.8 g N m-2 yr-1 and 3.1 g S m-2 yr-1), and forest fragmentation in the surrounding landscape (up to 88% reduced tree cover within 5 km). 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.

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Environmental Science

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