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	Author	Aubry-Kientz, M.; Rossi, V.; Wagner, F.; Herault, B.
	Title	Identifying climatic drivers of tropical forest dynamics			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Biogeosciences	Abbreviated Journal	Biogeosciences
	Volume	12	Issue	19	Pages	5583-5596
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	Abstract	In the context of climate change, identifying and then predicting the impacts of climatic drivers on tropical forest dynamics is becoming a matter of urgency. To look at these climate impacts, we used a coupled model of tropical tree growth and mortality, calibrated with forest dynamic data from the 20-year study site of Paracou, French Guiana, in order to introduce and test a set of climatic variables. Three major climatic drivers were identified through the variable selection procedure: drought, water saturation and temperature. Drought decreased annual growth and mortality rates, high precipitation increased mortality rates and high temperature decreased growth. Interactions between key functional traits, stature and climatic variables were investigated, showing best resistance to drought for trees with high wood density and for trees with small current diameters. Our results highlighted strong long-term impacts of climate variables on tropical forest dynamics, suggesting potential deep impacts of climate changes during the next century. © Author(s) 2015.
	Address	Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research-INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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	Author	Wagner, F.H.; Herault, B.; Bonal, D.; Stahl, C.; Anderson, L.O.; Baker, T.R.; Sebastian Becker, G.; Beeckman, H.; Boanerges Souza, D.; Cesar Botosso, P.; Bowman, D.M.J.S.; Bräuning, A.; Brede, B.; Irving Brown, F.; Julio Camarero, J.; Camargo, P.B.; Cardoso, F.C.G.; Carvalho, F.A.; Castro, W.; Koloski Chagas, R.; Chave, J.; Chidumayo, E.N.; Clark, D.A.; Regina Capellotto Costa, F.; Couralet, C.; Henrique Da Silva Mauricio, P.; Dalitz, H.; Resende De Castro, V.; Milani, J.E.D.F.; Consuelo De Oliveira, E.; De Souza Arruda, L.; Devineau, J.L.; Drew, D.M.; Dünisch, O.; Durigan, G.; Elifuraha, E.; Fedele, M.; Ferreira Fedele, L.; Figueiredo Filho, A.; Finger, C.A.G.; César Franco, A.; Jnior, L.F.; Galvão, F.; Gebrekirstos, A.; Gliniars, R.; Maurício Lima De Alencastro Graça, P.; Griffiths, A.D.; Grogan, J.; Guan, K.; Homeier, J.; Raquel Kanieski, M.; Khoon Kho, L.; Koenig, J.; Valerio Kohler, S.; Krepkowski, J.; Lemos-Filho, J.P.; Lieberman, D.; Eugene Lieberman, M.; Sergio Lisi, C.; Longhi Santos, T.; Ayala, J.L.L.; Eijji Maeda, E.; Malhi, Y.; Maria, V.R.B.; Marques, M.C.M.; Marques, R.; Maza Chamba, H.; Mbwambo, L.; Liana Lisboa Melgaço, K.; Angela Mendivelso, H.; Murphy, B.P.; O'Brien, J.J.; F. Oberbauer, S.; Okada, N.; Plissier, R.; Prior, L.D.; Alejandro Roig, F.; Ross, M.; Rodrigo Rossatto, D.; Rossi, V.; Rowland, L.; Rutishauser, E.; Santana, H.; Schulze, M.; Selhorst, D.; Rodrigues Silva, W.; Silveira, M.; Spannl, S.; Swaine, M.D.; Toledo, J.J.; Miranda Toledo, M.; Toledo, M.; Toma, T.; Tomazello Filho, M.; Ignacio Valdez Hernández, J.; Verbesselt, J.; Aparecida Vieira, S.; Vincent, G.; Volkmer De Castilho, C.; Volland, F.; Worbes, M.; Lea Bolzan Zanon, M.; Aragão, L.E.O.C.
	Title	Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Biogeosciences	Abbreviated Journal	Biogeosciences
	Volume	13	Issue	8	Pages	2537-2562
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	Abstract	The seasonal climate drivers of the carbon cycle in tropical forests remain poorly known, although these forests account for more carbon assimilation and storage than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Based on a unique combination of seasonal pan-tropical data sets from 89 experimental sites (68 include aboveground wood productivity measurements and 35 litter productivity measurements), their associated canopy photosynthetic capacity (enhanced vegetation index, EVI) and climate, we ask how carbon assimilation and aboveground allocation are related to climate seasonality in tropical forests and how they interact in the seasonal carbon cycle. We found that canopy photosynthetic capacity seasonality responds positively to precipitation when rainfall is < 2000ĝ€-mmĝ€-yrĝ'1 (water-limited forests) and to radiation otherwise (light-limited forests). On the other hand, independent of climate limitations, wood productivity and litterfall are driven by seasonal variation in precipitation and evapotranspiration, respectively. Consequently, light-limited forests present an asynchronism between canopy photosynthetic capacity and wood productivity. First-order control by precipitation likely indicates a decrease in tropical forest productivity in a drier climate in water-limited forest, and in current light-limited forest with future rainfall < 2000ĝ€-mmĝ€-yrĝ'1. Author(s) 2016.
	Address	College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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	Author	Goulamoussene, Y.; Bedeau, C.; Descroix, L.; Linguet, L.; Herault, B.
	Title	Environmental control of natural gap size distribution in tropical forests			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Biogeosciences	Abbreviated Journal	Biogeosciences
	Volume	14	Issue	2	Pages	353-364
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	Abstract	Natural disturbances are the dominant form of forest regeneration and dynamics in unmanaged tropical forests. Monitoring the size distribution of treefall gaps is important to better understand and predict the carbon budget in response to land use and other global changes. In this study, we model the size frequency distribution of natural canopy gaps with a discrete power law distribution. We use a Bayesian framework to introduce and test, using Monte Carlo Markov chain and Kuo-Mallick algorithms, the effect of local physical environment on gap size distribution. We apply our methodological framework to an original light detecting and ranging dataset in which natural forest gaps were delineated over 30 000 ha of unmanaged forest. We highlight strong links between gap size distribution and environment, primarily hydrological conditions and topography, with large gaps being more frequent on floodplains and in wind-exposed areas. In the future, we plan to apply our methodological framework on a larger scale using satellite data. Additionally, although gap size distribution variation is clearly under environmental control, variation in gap size distribution in time should be tested against climate variability. © Author(s) 2017.
	Address	Cirad, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Inra, Univ Antilles, Univ Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana
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	Author	Courtois, E. A.; Stahl, C.; Burban, B.; Van Den Berge, J.; Berveiller, D.; Bréchet, L.; Larned Soong, J.; Arriga, N.; Peñuelas, J.; August Janssens, I.
	Title	Automatic high-frequency measurements of full soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a tropical forest			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Biogeosciences	Abbreviated Journal	Biogeosciences
	Volume	16	Issue	3	Pages	785-796
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	Abstract	Measuring in situ soil fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) continuously at high frequency requires appropriate technology. We tested the combination of a commercial automated soil CO 2 flux chamber system (LI-8100A) with a CH 4 and N 2 O analyzer (Picarro G2308) in a tropical rainforest for 4 months. A chamber closure time of 2 min was sufficient for a reliable estimation of CO 2 and CH 4 fluxes (100% and 98.5% of fluxes were above minimum detectable flux – MDF, respectively). This closure time was generally not suitable for a reliable estimation of the low N 2 O fluxes in this ecosystem but was sufficient for detecting rare major peak events. A closure time of 25 min was more appropriate for reliable estimation of most N 2 O fluxes (85.6% of measured fluxes are above MDF±0.002 nmolm -2 s -1 ). Our study highlights the importance of adjusted closure time for each gas. © Author(s) 2019.
	Address	CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Vallès, Catalonia, 08193, Spain
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	Notes	Export Date: 25 February 2019; Correspondence Address: Alice Courtois, E.; Department of Biology University of Antwerp, Centers of Excellence Global Change Ecology and PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems), Universiteitsplein 1, Belgium; email: courtoiselodie@gmail.com; Funding details: Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, CIRAD; Funding details: European Research Council, ERC, ERC-2013-SyG 610028-IMBALANCE-P; Funding details: ANR-10-LABX-25-01, ANR-11-INBS-0001; Funding details: U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, DE-AC02-05CH11231; Funding details: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR; Funding details: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA; Funding details: Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, FWO; Funding text 1: Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the European Research Council Synergy grant ERC-2013-SyG 610028-IMBALANCE-P. We thank Jan Segers for help in the initial setting of the system and Renato Winkler from Picarro and Rod Madsen and Jason Hupp from LI-COR for their help in combining the systems. We thank the staff of Paracou station, managed by UMR Ecofog (CIRAD, INRA; Kourou), which received support from “Investissement d’Avenir” grants managed by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CEBA: ANR-10-LABX-25-01, ANAEE-France: ANR-11-INBS-0001). This study was conducted in collaboration with the Guyaflux program belonging to SOERE F-ORE-T, which is supported annually by Ecofor, Allenvi, and the French national research infrastructure, ANAEE-F. This program also received support from an “investissement d’avenir” grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (CEBA, ref ANR-10-LABX-25-01). 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Cy, 13, pp. 31-46; Verchot, L.V., Davidson, E.A., Cattânio, J.H., Ackerman, I.L., Land-use change and biogeochemical controls of methane fluxes in soils of eastern Amazonia (2000) Ecosystems, 3, pp. 41-56; Wagner, F., Hérault, B., Stahl, C., Bonal, D., Rossi, V., Modeling water availability for trees in tropical forests (2011) Agr. Forest Meteorol, 151, pp. 1202-1213			Approved	no
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	Author	Groc, S.; Delabie, J.H.C.; Longino, J.T.; Orivel, J.; Majer, J.D.; Vasconcelos, H.L.; Dejean, A.
	Title	A new method based on taxonomic sufficiency to simplify studies on Neotropical ant assemblages			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal	Biol. Conserv.
	Volume	143	Issue	11	Pages	2832-2839
	Keywords	Higher-taxon surrogacy; “Indicator taxa” surrogacy; Multi-taxonomic assemblages; Mixed-level method; Terrestrial arthropod assemblages; Biodiversity indicators
	Abstract	Insects, particularly ants, are good bioindicators of the state of ecosystems. Nevertheless, incorporating them into conservation surveys is expensive due to problems associated with their identification, which is exacerbated by the fact that there are fewer and fewer taxonomists working today. “Taxonomic sufficiency” (TS), which identifies organisms to a level of taxonomic resolution sufficient enough to satisfy the objectives of a study, has never been applied to Neotropical ant communities. We analysed five Neotropical datasets representing ant assemblages collected with different sampling methods in various habitats. We first treated them using two complementary and cumulative TS methods, higher-taxon and “indicator taxa” surrogacies, before testing a new approach called “mixed-level method” that combines the two previous approaches. For the higher-taxon surrogacy, we showed that, above species, genus is the most informative taxonomic level. Then, mixed-level method provided more information on ant assemblages than did the two others, even though the “indicator taxa” surrogacy was based on relevant indicator genera. Although habitat type has no effect on its efficiency, this new method is influenced by the dataset structure and the type of sampling method used to collect data. We have thus developed a new method for analyzing Neotropical ant faunas that enables the taxonomic work linked to the identification of problematic species to be significantly reduced, while conserving most of the information on the ant assemblage. This method should enhance the work of Neotropical entomologists not specialised in taxonomy, particularly those concerned with biological conservation and indication. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
	Address	[Groc, Sarah; Dejean, Alain] CNRS, Ecol Forets Guyane UMR 8172, F-97379 Kourou, France, Email: sarah.groc@laposte.net
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	Author	Degen, B.; Blanc, L.; Caron, H.; Maggia, L.; Kremer, A.; Gourlet-Fleury, S.
	Title	Impact of selective logging on genetic composition and demographic structure of four tropical tree species			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal	Biol. Conserv.
	Volume	131	Issue	3	Pages	386-401
	Keywords	demography; genetic diversity; logging; phenology; pollen and seed dispersal; simulation; trees; tropics
	Abstract	Over-exploitation and fragmentation are serious problems for tropical forests. Most sustainable forest management practices avoid clear-cuts and apply selective logging systems focused on a few commercial species. We applied a simulation model to estimate the impact of such selective logging scenarios on the genetic diversity and demography of four tropical tree species from French Guiana. The simulations used data on genetic and demographic composition, growth, phenology and pollen and seed dispersal obtained for Dicorynia guianensis, Sextonia rubra, Symphonia globulifera and Vouacapoua americana at the experimental site in Paracou. Whereas Symphonia globulifera serves as a model for a species with low logging pressure, the other three species represent the most exploited tree species in French Guiana. In simulations with moderate logging, typical for French Guiana, with large cutting diameter (> 60 cm diameter) and long cutting cycles (65 years), the two species V. americana and Sextonia rubra were not able to recover their initial stock at the end of the rotation period, with a large decrease in the number of individuals and in basal area. Under a more intensive logging system (cutting diameter > 45 cm diameter, cutting cycles of 30 years) that is common practice in the Brazilian Amazon, only Symphonia globulifera showed no negative impact. Generally, the differences between the genetic parameters in the control scenarios without logging and the logging scenarios were surprisingly small. The main reasons for this were the overlapping of generations and the effective dispersal ability of gene vectors in all species, which guarantee relative homogeneity of the genetic structure in different age classes. Nevertheless, decreasing the population size by logging reduced the number of genotypes and caused higher genetic distances between the original population and the population at the end of the logging cycles. Sensitivity analysis showed that genetic changes in the logging scenarios were principally determined by the growth, densities and cutting diameter of each species, and only to a very small extent by the reproductive system including factors such as pollen and seed dispersal and flowering phenology. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
	Address	BFH, Inst Forstgenet & Forstpflanzenzuchtung, D-22927 Grosshansdorf, Germany, Email: b.degen@holz.uni-hamburg.de
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	Author	Dejean, A.; Céréghino, R.; Leponce, M.; Rossi, V.; Roux, O.; Compin, A.; Delabie, J.H.C.; Corbara, B.
	Title	The fire ant Solenopsis saevissima and habitat disturbance alter ant communities			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal	Biological Conservation
	Volume	187	Issue		Pages	145-153
	Keywords	Ant community; Fire ants; Invasive species; Species coexistence; Supercoloniality
	Abstract	The fire ant Solenopsis saevissima is a major pest frequent in human-disturbed areas of its native range where it forms 'supercolonies'. We determined that its natural habitat in French Guiana is likely the sporadically flooded riparian forest and aimed to evaluate this ant's impact on the abundance and diversity of other ants by comparing different habitats at two sites. We noted a significant decrease in ant species richness between the rainforest and human-disturbed habitats (but not between the former and the naturally disturbed riparian forest), and between extreme habitats and all others. The number of ant nests per surface unit (i.e., quadrats of equal surface area), a proxy of ant abundance, globally followed this pattern. S. saevissima was absent from pristine rainforest (as expected) and from extreme habitats, showing the limits of its adaptability, whereas some other native ants can develop in these habitats. Ant species richness was significantly lower in the presence of S. saevissima in the riparian forest, forest edges and meadows, illustrating that this ant species has a negative impact on the ant communities in addition to the impact of natural- and man-made disturbances. Only some ant species can develop in its presence, and certain of these can even thrive. Because it has been recorded in Africa, Guadeloupe and the Galápagos Islands, we concluded that, due to the increasing volume of global trade and forest destruction, S. saevissima could become a pantropical invasive species. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
	Address	Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise Pascal (LMGE), Clermont-Ferrand, France
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	Author	Baraloto, C.; Alverga, P.; Quispe, S.B.; Barnes, G.; Chura, N.B.; da Silva, I.B.; Castro, W.; da Souza, H.; de Souza Moll, I.E.; Del Alcazar Chilo, J.; Linares, H.D.; Quispe, J.G.; Kenji, D.; Marsik, M.; Medeiros, H.; Murphy, S.; Rockwell, C.; Selaya, G.; Shenkin, A.; Silveira, M.; Southworth, J.; Vasquez Colomo, G.H.; Perz, S.
	Title	Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal	Biological Conservation
	Volume	191	Issue		Pages	674-681
	Keywords	Açai; Biodiversity; Brazil nut; Carbon stocks; Connectivity; Infrastructure; Livelihood; Ntfp; Redd; Road impact; Rubber; Timber; Tropical rainforest
	Abstract	Road construction demonstrably accelerates deforestation rates in tropical forests, but its consequences for forest degradation remain less clear. We estimated a series of forest value metrics including components of biodiversity, carbon stocks, and timber and non-timber forest product resources, along the recently paved Inter-Oceanic Highway (IOH) integrating Brazil and Peru along the Bolivian border. We installed 69 vegetation plots in intact terra firme forests representative of local community holdings near and far from the IOH, and we characterized 15 components of forest value for each plot.We observed strong geographic gradients in forest value components across the region, with increases from west to east in aboveground biomass and in the abundance of timber and non-timber forest product trees and regeneration. Plots in communities in Pando, Bolivia, where the IOH remains in part unpaved, had the highest aboveground biomass, standing timber volumes and Brazil nut tree density. In contrast, communities in Madre de Dios, Peru, where settlements and unpaved portions of the IOH have existed for decades, and in Acre, Brazil, where paving of the IOH has been underway for more than a decade, were more degraded. Seven of the fifteen forest value components we measured increased with increasing distance from the IOH, although the magnitude of these effects was weak. Landscape scale remote sensing analyses showed much stronger effects of road proximity on deforestation. We suggest that remote sensing techniques including canopy spectral signatures might be calibrated to characterize multiple components of forest value, so that we can estimate landscape scale impacts of infrastructure developments on both deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
	Address	International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
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	Author	Cecilia Blundo ; Julieta Carilla ; Ricardo Grau ; Agustina Malizia ; Lucio Malizia ; Oriana Osinaga-Acosta ; Michael Bird ; Bradford, Matt ; Damien Catchpole ; Andrew Ford ; Andrew Graham ; David Hilbert ; Jeanette Kemp ; Susan Laurance ; William Laurance ; Francoise Yoko Ishida ; Andrew Marshall ; Catherine Waite ; Hannsjoerg Woell ; Jean-Francois Bastin ; Marijn Bauters ; Hans Beeckman ; Pfascal Boeckx ; Jan Bogaert ; Charles De Canniere ; Thales de Haulleville ; Jean-Louis Doucet ; Olivier Hardy ; Wannes Hubau ; Elizabeth Kearsley ; Hans Verbeeck ; Jason Vleminckx ; Steven W. Brewer ; Alfredo Alarc´on ; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami ; Eric Arets ; Luzmila Arroyo ; Ezequiel Chavez ; Todd Fredericksen ; Ren´e Guill´en Villaroel ; Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty ; Timothy Killeen ; Juan Carlos Licona ; John Lleigue ; Casimiro Mendoza ; Samaria Murakami ; Alexander Parada Gutierrez ; Guido Pardo ; Marielos Pena-Claros ; Lourens Poorter ; Marisol Toledo ; Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo ; Laura Jessica Viscarra ; Vincent Vos ; Jorge Ahumada ; Everton Almeida ; Jarcilene Almeida aq, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira ; Wesley Alves da Cruz ; Atila Alves de Oliveira ; Fabrício Alvim Carvalho ; Flavio Amorim Obermuller ; Ana Andrade ; Fernanda Antunes Carvalho ; Simone Aparecida Vieira ; Ana Carla Aquino ; Luiz Aragao ; Ana Claudia Araújo ; Marco Antonio Assis ; Jose Ataliba Mantelli Aboin Gomes ; Fabrício Baccaro ; Plínio Barbosa de Camargo ; Paulo Barni ; Jorcely Barroso ; Luis Carlos Bernacci ; Kauane Bordin ; Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros ; Igor Broggio ; Jose Luís Camargo ; Domingos Cardoso ; Maria Antonia Carniello ; Andre Luis Casarin Rochelle ; Carolina Castilho ; Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro ; Wendeson Castro ; Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro ; Flavia Costa ; Rodrigo Costa de Oliveira ; Italo Coutinho ; John Cunha ; Lola da Costa ; Lucia da Costa Ferreira ; Richarlly da Costa Silva ; Marta da Graça Zacarias Simbine ; Vitor de Andrade Kamimura ; Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima ; Lia de Oliveira Melo ; Luciano de Queiroz ; Jose Romualdo de Sousa Lima ; Mario do Espírito Santo ; Tomas Domingues ; Nayane Cristina dos Santos Prestes ; Steffan Eduardo Silva Carneiro ; Fernando Elias ; Gabriel Eliseu ; Thaise Emilio ; Camila Laís Farrapo ; Letícia Fernandes ; Gustavo Ferreira ; Joice Ferreira ; Leandro Ferreira ; Socorro Ferreira ; Marcelo Fragomeni Simon ; Maria Aparecida Freitas ; Queila S. García ; Angelo Gilberto Manzatto ; Paulo Graça ; Frederico Guilherme ; Eduardo Hase ; Niro Higuchi ; Mariana Iguatemy ; Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa ; Margarita Jaramillo
	Title	Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2021	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	260	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	parcelle, forêt tropicale, biodiversité forestière, Écosystème forestier, Écologie forestière, Changement de couvert végétal, Couvert forestier
	Abstract	Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Networking is essential to discover the answers to questions that transcend borders and the horizons of funding agencies. Here we show how a global community is responding to the challenges of tropical ecosystem research with diverse teams measuring forests tree-by-tree in thousands of long-term plots. We review the major scientific discoveries of this work and show how this process is changing tropical forest science. Our core approach involves linking long-term grassroots initiatives with standardized protocols and data management to generate robust scaled-up results. By connecting tropical researchers and elevating their status, our Social Research Network model recognises the key role of the data originator in scientific discovery. Conceived in 1999 with RAINFOR (South America), our permanent plot networks have been adapted to Africa (AfriTRON) and Southeast Asia (T-FORCES) and widely emulated worldwide. Now these multiple initiatives are integrated via ForestPlots.net cyber-infrastructure, linking colleagues from 54 countries across 24 plot networks. Collectively these are transforming understanding of tropical forests and their biospheric role. Together we have discovered how, where and why forest carbon and biodiversity are responding to climate change, and how they feedback on it. This long-term pan-tropical collaboration has revealed a large long-term carbon sink and its trends, as well as making clear which drivers are most important, which forest processes are affected, where they are changing, what the lags are, and the likely future responses of tropical forests as the climate continues to change. By leveraging a remarkably old technology, plot networks are sparking a very modern revolution in tropical forest science. In the future, humanity can benefit greatly by nurturing the grassroots communities now collectively capable of generating unique, long-term understanding of Earth's most precious forests.
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	Author	Amani, Bienvenu H.K. ; N'Guessan, Anny E. ; Derroire, Géraldine ; N'dja, Justin K. ; Elogne, Aka G. M. ; Traoré, Karidia ; Zo-Bi, Irie C. ; Hérault, Bruno
	Title	The potential of secondary forests to restore biodiversity of the lost forests in semi-deciduous West Africa			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2021	Publication	Biological Conservation	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	259	Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	In West Africa, more than 80% of the original forest cover has disappeared due to the exponential growth of human populations in a recurrent search for new agricultural land. Once the fertility of the land is exhausted, these areas are abandoned and left to be reforested through natural succession. Despite the widespread presence of secondary forests of various ages in West African landscapes, little is known about the trajectories of recovery and the environmental factors that influence recovery rates. We set up 96 0.2 ha forest plots, along a chronosequence of 1 to 40 years and including 7 controls, on which all trees larger than 2.5 cm in diameter at breast height were inventoried. We modelled the recovery trajectories of four complementary dimensions of biodiversity (richness, diversity, composition, indicators of old-growth forest) in a Bayesian framework. Our results show that the four dimensions of biodiversity recover at different rates, with composition recovering much faster than floristic diversity. Among the local, landscape, and historical factors studied, the number of remnants and proximity to old-growth forests have a positive impact on recovery rates, with, under good environmental conditions, the composition, richness, and diversity being almost completely recovered in less than 25 years. Our results demonstrate the very high resilience of the composition of the semi-deciduous forests of West Africa, but also suggest that the management of these post-forest areas must be differentiated according to the landscape context and the presence of isolated trees, which are the last vestiges of the former forest. In unfavourable conditions, natural dynamics should be assisted by agroforestry practices and local tree planting to allow for a rapid restoration of forest goods and services to local populations.
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