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

Journal Article · · Global Change Biology
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12712· OSTI ID:1265615
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  2. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory; National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (United States). Dept. of Botany
  3. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst. (SCBI), Front Royal, VA (United States). National Zoological Park. Conservation Ecology Center
  4. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory
  5. Univ. of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei). Faculty of Science. Environmental and Life Sciences
  6. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst. (SCBI), Front Royal, VA (United States). National Zoological Park. Conservation Ecology Center; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Woods Inst. for the Environment; Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States). Dept. of Geography
  7. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst., Washington, DC (United States). National Zoological Park. Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability
  8. Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Biology
  9. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst. (SCBI), Front Royal, VA (United States). National Zoological Park. Conservation Ecology Center; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Woods Inst. for the Environment; Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States). Dept. of Geography
  10. Mahidol Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Dept. of Biology
  11. Dept. of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Bangkok (Thailand). Research Office
  12. Univ. of Aberdeen (United Kingdom). School of Biological Sciences
  13. Univ. of Queensland, St. Lucia (Australia). School of Biological Sciences; Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). School of Geography and the Environment. Environmental Change Inst.
  14. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming (China). Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Key Lab. of Tropical Forest Ecology
  15. Sinchi Amazonic Inst. of Scientific Research, Bogota (Colombia)
  16. Univ. of Buea (Cameroon). Dept. of Botany and Plant Physiology
  17. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Dept. of Biology
  18. USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI (United States). Inst. of Pacific Islands Forestry
  19. Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore (India). Centre for Ecological Sciences
  20. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Botany
  21. Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Medellin (Colombia). Dept. de Ciencias Forestales
  22. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (United States). Dept. of Botany
  23. Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Epulu (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestiere (CEFRECOF)
  24. Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Tai Po, Hong Kong (China)
  25. Forest Research Inst. Malaysia (FRIM), Selangor (Malaysia)
  26. The Field Museum, Chicago, IL (United States). Botany Dept.
  27. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory; Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Environmental Studies Dept.
  28. Univ. of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka). Faculty of Science. Dept. of Botany
  29. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenyang (China). State Key Lab. of Forest and Soil Ecology. Inst. of Applied Ecology
  30. USDA-Forest Service Station Headquarters, Asheville, NC (United States). Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
  31. Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba Project
  32. Univ. of Hong Kong (China). School of Biological Sciences. Kadoorie Inst.
  33. Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada). Dept. of Renewable Resources
  34. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computational Earth Sciences Group
  35. Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI (United States). Dept. of Natural and Applied Sciences
  36. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory; Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  37. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States). College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
  38. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory; Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Resource Ecology Group
  39. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan (China). Wuhan Botanical Garden
  40. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Graduate School of Agriculture
  41. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (Kenya); Univ. of Nairobi (Kenya). Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology Dept.
  42. Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki (Kenya); Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY (United States). Global Conservation Programs
  43. Silva Tarouca Research Inst., Brno (Czech Republic). Dept. of Forest Ecology
  44. Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT (United States). College of Forestry and Conservation. Dept. of Forest Management
  45. Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou (China). Research Inst. of Tropical Forestry
  46. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guilin (China). Guangxi Inst. of Botany
  47. Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing (China). Research Inst. of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
  48. Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore). National Inst. of Education. Natural Sciences and Science Education Academic Group
  49. Utah State Univ., Logan, UT (United States). Wildland Resources Dept.
  50. Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzaville (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  51. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). School of Geography and the Environment. Environmental Change Inst.
  52. Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (STRI), Panama (Panama). Center for Tropical Forest Science. Forest Global Earth Observatory; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD (United States). Forest Ecology Group
  53. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst., Front Royal, VA (United States). National Zoological Park. Conservation Ecology Center
  54. Inst. de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Libreville (Gabon). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique
  55. Natural England, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
  56. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States). Dept. of Biology
  57. New Guinea Binatang Research Centre, Madang (Papua New Guinea); Univ. of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic). Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Faculty of Science. Biology Centre
  58. Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Inst. of Biosciences. Ecology Dept.
  59. Univ. of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City (Philippines). Inst. of Biology
  60. Harvard Univ., Petersham, MA (United States). Harvard Forest
  61. Univ. of Hawaii, Hilo, HI (United States). Dept. of Biology
  62. Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
  63. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD (United States). Forest Ecology Group
  64. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  65. Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TroPEG), Mundemba (Cameroon)
  66. Maejo Univ., Chiang Mai (Thailand). Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design
  67. National Dong Hwa Univ., Hualian (Taiwan). Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies
  68. Sarawak Forest Dept., Kuching (Malaysia)
  69. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Faculty of Forestry
  70. Washington State Univ., Vancouver, WA (United States). School of Biological Sciences
  71. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Scotland (United Kingdom); Univ. of Puerto Rico Rio Pedras, San Juan (Puerto Rico). Dept. of Environmental Science. Inst. for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
  72. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  73. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Ecuador, Quito (Ecuador). Dept. of Biological Sciences
  74. Inst. Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota (Colombia)
  75. National Inst. of Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus (Brazil)
  76. East China Normal Univ. (ECNU), Shanghai (China). School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
  77. Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States). Dept. of Plant Biology
  78. Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI (United States). Dept. of Biology. Dept. of Natural and Applied Sciences
  79. Univ. of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, San Juan (Puerto Rico). Dept. of Environmental Science. Inst. for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
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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 dynamic research sites useful for characterizing forest responses to global change. The broad suite of measurements made at the CTFS-ForestGEO sites make it possible to investigate the complex ways in which global change is impacting forest dynamics. ongoing research across the 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 a era of global change

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1265615
Journal Information:
Global Change Biology, Vol. 21, Issue 2; ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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