@Article{Sist_etal2015,
author="Sist, P.
and Rutishauser, E.
and Pe{\~n}a-Claros, M.
and Shenkin, A.
and Herault, B.
and Blanc, L.
and Baraloto, C.
and Baya, F.
and Benedet, F.
and da Silva, K.E.
and Descroix, L.
and Ferreira, J.N.
and Gourlet-Fleury, S.
and Guedes, M.C.
and Bin Harun, I.
and Jalonen, R.
and Kanashiro, M.
and Krisnawati, H.
and Kshatriya, M.
and Lincoln, P.
and Mazzei, L.
and Medjib{\'e}, V.
and Nasi, R.
and d{\textquoteright}Oliveira, M.V.N.
and de Oliveira, L.C.
and Picard, N.
and Pietsch, S.
and Pinard, M.
and Priyadi, H.
and Putz, F.E.
and Rodney, K.
and Rossi, V.
and Roopsind, A.
and Ruschel, A.R.
and Shari, N.H.Z.
and Rodrigues de Souza, C.
and Susanty, F.H.
and Sotta, E.D.
and Toledo, M.
and Vidal, E.
and West, T.A.P.
and Wortel, V.
and Yamada, T.",
title="The Tropical managed forests Observatory: A research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests",
journal="Applied Vegetation Science",
year="2015",
publisher="Wiley-Blackwell",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="171--174",
optkeywords="Biodiversity",
optkeywords="Carbon cycle",
optkeywords="Climate change",
optkeywords="Ecosystem resilience",
optkeywords="Logging",
optkeywords="Silviculture",
optkeywords="Tropical forests",
optkeywords="Tropical managed forests Observatory",
abstract="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 bias is problematic given that logged and disturbed tropical forests are now covering a larger area than the so-called primary forests. A new network of permanent sample plots in logged forests, the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO), aims to fill 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. To improve our knowledge of the resilience of tropical logged forests, 20 research institutes are now collaborating on studies on the effects of logging on forest structure, productivity, biodiversity and carbon fluxes at large spatial and temporal scales. These studies are carried out in the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO), an international network including 24 sites and 490 permanent sample plots across South America, Africa and South East Asia.",
optnote="Export Date: 12 December 2014; Coden: Avscf; Correspondence Address: Sist, P.; Cirad, UR 105 TA/10CFrance",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=571), last updated on Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:58:15 -0300",
issn="14022001 (Issn)",
opturl="http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84914182216&partnerID=40&md5=e96d70163603269c1c801721662e8061"
}