Zuleta Daniel, Arellano Gabriel, Banda Karina, Bauman David, Bordin Kauane M., Carle Hannah, Cuni-Sanchez Aida, Ferreira de Lima Renato A., Dexter Kyle G., Esquivel Muelbert Adriane, Godlee John L., Herrmann Valentine, Lewis Simon L., Martinez-Villa Johanna, Medina-Vega José A., Needham Jessica, Nicora Chequin Renata, Njoghomi Elisha E., Ordoñez Jenny C., Pennington Toby, Pérez-Cárdenas Nathalia, Phillips Oliver L., Piponiot Camille, Pugh Thomas A. M., Putri Dwinda Mariska, Ribeiro-Miombo Natasha, Russo Sabrina E., Ter Steege Hans, Van Breugel Michiel, Davies Stuart J..
2024. Unity makes strength: accelerating tropical forest science and building capacity through a global alliance of research networks.
In : IUFRO 2024 World Congress: Forests and Society Towards 2050. Book of abstracts. IUFRO, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Résumé : Tropical forests contribute to approximately 70% of the world's forest carbon sink and support more than half the known species on Earth. Despite their global significance, our empirical understanding of the structure and functioning of tropical forests remains hindered due to the limited availability of field-based observations across environmental, disturbance, and successional gradients. While several international research networks have made significant contributions to tropical forest science over the past decades, none of them offer a comprehensive pantropical perspective on the dynamics of these critical ecosystems. Here, we introduce the Alliance for Tropical Forest Science (ATFS), a new pantropical partnership that aims to accelerate research and build the scientific capacity necessary to improve understanding of how tropical forests function and to predict their responses to future environmental changes. The ATFS brings together 12 international tropical forest plot networks that manage 11,680 forest plots across 57 countries. We present the main objectives of the alliance and share the experience from the Tropical Forest Mortality Working Group (ATFS–MWG). We discuss the main challenges and showcase recent advancements in multi-network data harmonization and capacity building, along with preliminary results from the first multi-network study aiming to identify the primary drivers of tree mortality and associated carbon losses across the world's tropical forests. As climate changes, assembling the disciplinary expertise, data, and scientific capacity across tropical forests is critical to resolving the underlying drivers of forest dynamics as well as informing the policy initiatives necessary to stop further global temperature increases and biodiversity losses.
Auteurs et affiliations
- Zuleta Daniel, STRI (USA)
- Arellano Gabriel, University of Michigan (USA)
- Banda Karina, iDiv (DEU)
- Bauman David, Université de Montpellier (FRA)
- Bordin Kauane M., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (BRA)
- Carle Hannah, Western Sydney University (AUS)
- Cuni-Sanchez Aida, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NOR)
- Ferreira de Lima Renato A., USP (BRA)
- Dexter Kyle G., University of Edinburgh (GBR)
- Esquivel Muelbert Adriane, University of Birmingham (GBR)
- Godlee John L., University of Edinburgh (GBR)
- Herrmann Valentine, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology (USA)
- Lewis Simon L., University College London (GBR)
- Martinez-Villa Johanna, Université du Québec (CAN)
- Medina-Vega José A., STRI (USA)
- Needham Jessica, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)
- Nicora Chequin Renata, Instituto de Botanica del Nordeste (ARG)
- Njoghomi Elisha E., Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TZA)
- Ordoñez Jenny C., Universidad de las Américas (ECU)
- Pennington Toby, University of Exeter (GBR)
- Pérez-Cárdenas Nathalia, UZH (CHE)
- Phillips Oliver L., University of Leeds (GBR)
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Piponiot Camille, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (FRA)
ORCID: 0000-0002-3473-1982
- Pugh Thomas A. M., Lund University (SWE)
- Putri Dwinda Mariska, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (FRA)
- Ribeiro-Miombo Natasha, Eduardo Mondlane University (MOZ)
- Russo Sabrina E., University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
- Ter Steege Hans, Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NLD)
- Van Breugel Michiel, National University of Singapore (SGP)
- Davies Stuart J., STRI (USA)
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