@Article{CeciliaBlundo_etal2021,
author="Cecilia Blundo
and Julieta Carilla
and Ricardo Grau
and Agustina Malizia
and Lucio Malizia
and Oriana Osinaga-Acosta
and Michael Bird
and Bradford, Matt
and Damien Catchpole
and Andrew Ford
and Andrew Graham
and David Hilbert
and Jeanette Kemp
and Susan Laurance
and William Laurance
and Francoise Yoko Ishida
and Andrew Marshall
and Catherine Waite
and Hannsjoerg Woell
and Jean-Francois Bastin
and Marijn Bauters
and Hans Beeckman
and Pfascal Boeckx
and Jan Bogaert
and Charles De Canniere
and Thales de Haulleville
and Jean-Louis Doucet
and Olivier Hardy
and Wannes Hubau
and Elizabeth Kearsley
and Hans Verbeeck
and Jason Vleminckx
and Steven W. Brewer
and Alfredo Alarc{\textasciiacute}on
and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami
and Eric Arets
and Luzmila Arroyo
and Ezequiel Chavez
and Todd Fredericksen
and Ren{\textasciiacute}e Guill{\textasciiacute}en Villaroel
and Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty
and Timothy Killeen
and Juan Carlos Licona
and John Lleigue
and Casimiro Mendoza
and Samaria Murakami
and Alexander Parada Gutierrez
and Guido Pardo
and Marielos Pena-Claros
and Lourens Poorter
and Marisol Toledo
and Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo
and Laura Jessica Viscarra
and Vincent Vos
and Jorge Ahumada
and Everton Almeida
and Jarcilene Almeida aq, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
and Wesley Alves da Cruz
and Atila Alves de Oliveira
and Fabr{\'i}cio Alvim Carvalho
and Flavio Amorim Obermuller
and Ana Andrade
and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
and Simone Aparecida Vieira
and Ana Carla Aquino
and Luiz Aragao
and Ana Claudia Ara{\'u}jo
and Marco Antonio Assis
and Jose Ataliba Mantelli Aboin Gomes
and Fabr{\'i}cio Baccaro
and Pl{\'i}nio Barbosa de Camargo
and Paulo Barni
and Jorcely Barroso
and Luis Carlos Bernacci
and Kauane Bordin
and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros
and Igor Broggio
and Jose Lu{\'i}s Camargo
and Domingos Cardoso
and Maria Antonia Carniello
and Andre Luis Casarin Rochelle
and Carolina Castilho
and Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro
and Wendeson Castro
and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro
and Flavia Costa
and Rodrigo Costa de Oliveira
and Italo Coutinho
and John Cunha
and Lola da Costa
and Lucia da Costa Ferreira
and Richarlly da Costa Silva
and Marta da Gra{\c{c}}a Zacarias Simbine
and Vitor de Andrade Kamimura
and Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima
and Lia de Oliveira Melo
and Luciano de Queiroz
and Jose Romualdo de Sousa Lima
and Mario do Esp{\'i}rito Santo
and Tomas Domingues
and Nayane Cristina dos Santos Prestes
and Steffan Eduardo Silva Carneiro
and Fernando Elias
and Gabriel Eliseu
and Thaise Emilio
and Camila La{\'i}s Farrapo
and Let{\'i}cia Fernandes
and Gustavo Ferreira
and Joice Ferreira
and Leandro Ferreira
and Socorro Ferreira
and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon
and Maria Aparecida Freitas
and Queila S. Garc{\'i}a
and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto
and Paulo Gra{\c{c}}a
and Frederico Guilherme
and Eduardo Hase
and Niro Higuchi
and Mariana Iguatemy
and Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa
and Margarita Jaramillo",
title="Taking the pulse of Earth{\textquoteright}s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots",
journal="Biological Conservation",
year="2021",
publisher="Elsevier",
volume="260",
optkeywords="parcelle",
optkeywords="for{\^e}t tropicale",
optkeywords="biodiversit{\'e} foresti{\`e}re",
optkeywords="{\'E}cosyst{\`e}me forestier",
optkeywords="{\'E}cologie foresti{\`e}re",
optkeywords="Changement de couvert v{\'e}g{\'e}tal",
optkeywords="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{\textquoteright}s most precious forests.",
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doi="10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849"
}