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DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.322.3
title: Nanjenshan Forest Dynamics Plot, Taiwan

description: The Nanjenshan Forest Dynamics Plot was established in 1990 in the Nanjenshan Nature Reserve of Ken-Ting National Park in southern Taiwan, an area that lies between the tropics and the sub-tropics. The focus of research at this 3-hectare plot is how monsoon winds affect forests. The plot's location is ideal for such investigations because it covers areas that are directly exposed to and protected from monsoon winds. There are clear vegetation differences in these two areas. The forest that is exposed to wind is short and unstratified with high stem density and low per-stem species diversity. The leaves of these plant are small and thick, and litterfall is low. In contrast, in areas protected from the wind, the forest is taller and stratified with low stem density and high per-stem species richness. Leaves in this area are thinner and larger, and litterfall is high. The recent plot recensus (1997) has indicated that on a whole, growth and mortality rates, between and among species, differed between two areas exposed to different amounts of wind.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.323.2
title: Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot, Philippines

description: In 1994, Isabela State University, Conservation International in Phillipines, and CTFS/STRI initiated the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot. More recently, PLAN International has also become a major partner in the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot program. The Palanan FDP is located in an aseasonal forest in the typhoon belt, and is being compared with the Luquillo FDP in Puerto Rico's hurricane belt.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.323.6
title: Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot, Philippines

description: In 1994, Isabela State University, Conservation International in Philippines, and CTFS/STRI initiated the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot. More recently, PLAN International has also become a major partner in the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot program. The Palanan FDP is located in an aseasonal forest in the typhoon belt, and is being compared with the Luquillo FDP in Puerto Rico's hurricane belt.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.323.7
title: Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot, Philippines

description: In 1994, Isabela State University, Conservation International in Philippines, and CTFS/STRI initiated the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot. More recently, PLAN International has also become a major partner in the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot program. The Palanan FDP is located in an aseasonal forest in the typhoon belt, and is being compared with the Luquillo FDP in Puerto Rico's hurricane belt.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.324.2
title: Pasoh Dynamics Plot, Peninsular Malaysia

description: In 1994, Isabela State University, Conservation In 1986, the second Forest Dynamics Plot was initiated in peninsular Malaysia in a collaboration among the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, the CTFS/Harvard University, and STRI. Since the project's initiation, the National Institute of Environmental Studies of Japan has become a project partner. The plot is located in Pasoh Forest Reserve in lowland dipterocarp forest, a type of evergreen tropical moist forest. The area is aseasonal and has a flat terrain. The first census was completed in 1989, and two recencuses have been completed since then. This plot contains more than 800 species and approximately 340,000 trees. Many of the plot's species are commercially important and are the focus of intensive demographic study. Furthermore, analyses of the human uses of the Pasoh forest and economic valuations of forest resources based on Pasoh FDP data have been conducted.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.324.3
title: Pasoh Dynamics Plot, Peninsular Malaysia

description: In 1986, the second Forest Dynamics Plot was initiated in peninsular Malaysia in a collaboration among the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, the CTFS/Harvard University, and STRI. Since the project's initiation, the National Institute of Environmental Studies of Japan has become a project partner. The plot is located in Pasoh Forest Reserve in lowland dipterocarp forest, a type of evergreen tropical moist forest. The area is aseasonal and has a flat terrain. The first census was completed in 1989, and four recencuses have been completed since then. This plot contains more than 800 species and approximately 340,000 trees. Many of the plot's species are commercially important and are the focus of intensive demographic study. Furthermore, analyses of the human uses of the Pasoh forest and economic valuations of forest resources based on Pasoh FDP data have been conducted.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.324.4
title: Pasoh Dynamics Plot, Peninsular Malaysia

description: In 1986, the second Forest Dynamics Plot was initiated in peninsular Malaysia in a collaboration among the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, the CTFS/Harvard University, and STRI. Since the project's initiation, the National Institute of Environmental Studies of Japan has become a project partner. The plot is located in Pasoh Forest Reserve in lowland dipterocarp forest, a type of evergreen tropical moist forest. The area is aseasonal and has a flat terrain. The first census was completed in 1989, and four recencuses have been completed since then. This plot contains more than 800 species and approximately 340,000 trees. Many of the plot's species are commercially important and are the focus of intensive demographic study. Furthermore, analyses of the human uses of the Pasoh forest and economic valuations of forest resources based on Pasoh FDP data have been conducted.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.1
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.4
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.5
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.6
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.7
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.325.8
title: Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot, Sri Lanka

description: The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is the largest remnant of Sri Lanka's forests and contains the Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot was founded in 1993 by the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Department of Forestry, and CTFS/Harvard University. The forests of Sri Lanka display relatively low diversity but very high endemism. For example, in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 70% of its 190 tree species are endemic. The Sinharaja Forest Dynamics Plot contains one-half of the species in the World Heritage Site's lowland rain forests and one-quarter of all of Sri Lanka's tree species. The forest demographic work at the plot complements ongoing silvicultural and economic studies of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Forest Department, Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, CTFS/Harvard University. Research issues at Sinharaja include silvicultural management for diverse forest products including hardwoods, forest restoration, and the biological stability of forests of low biological diversity.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.1
title: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project

description: The BDFF (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort between Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian. The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin. Initially, BDFFP researchers attempted to quantify how many species could survive in a forest reserve of a given size. Scientists censused the flora and fauna of a series of 12 forest plots of 1, 10 and 100 hectares before they were isolated from the surrounding forest by clearcutting, and subsequently monitored physical and ecological changes in the reserves after isolation. These studies demonstrated that certain species go extinct in forest isolates. Working in "control areas" of undisturbed forest, BDFFP researchers are trying to identify the factors that lead some taxa to extinction and permit other, often closely related, species to survive. As scientists observed changes in the isolated forest reserves, it became apparent that a number of factors, other than the size of the forest isolate, were important in determining the ecological stability of the forest reserves. A team of researchers and graduate students is investigating the physical and biological changes that occur along a newly created forest edge. Another group is studying the interactions between isolated forest ecosystems and the vegetation around the forest reserves as pasture gives way to scrubby, second-growth vegetation
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.2
title: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project

description: The BDFF (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort between Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian. The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin. Initially, BDFFP researchers attempted to quantify how many species could survive in a forest reserve of a given size. Scientists censused the flora and fauna of a series of 12 forest plots of 1, 10 and 100 hectares before they were isolated from the surrounding forest by clearcutting, and subsequently monitored physical and ecological changes in the reserves after isolation. These studies demonstrated that certain species go extinct in forest isolates. Working in "control areas" of undisturbed forest, BDFFP researchers are trying to identify the factors that lead some taxa to extinction and permit other, often closely related, species to survive. As scientists observed changes in the isolated forest reserves, it became apparent that a number of factors, other than the size of the forest isolate, were important in determining the ecological stability of the forest reserves. A team of researchers and graduate students is investigating the physical and biological changes that occur along a newly created forest edge. Another group is studying the interactions between isolated forest ecosystems and the vegetation around the forest reserves as pasture gives way to scrubby, second-growth vegetation
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.3
title: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project

description: The BDFF (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort between Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian. The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin. Initially, BDFFP researchers attempted to quantify how many species could survive in a forest reserve of a given size. Scientists censused the flora and fauna of a series of 12 forest plots of 1, 10 and 100 hectares before they were isolated from the surrounding forest by clearcutting, and subsequently monitored physical and ecological changes in the reserves after isolation. These studies demonstrated that certain species go extinct in forest isolates. Working in "control areas" of undisturbed forest, BDFFP researchers are trying to identify the factors that lead some taxa to extinction and permit other, often closely related, species to survive. As scientists observed changes in the isolated forest reserves, it became apparent that a number of factors, other than the size of the forest isolate, were important in determining the ecological stability of the forest reserves. A team of researchers and graduate students is investigating the physical and biological changes that occur along a newly created forest edge. Another group is studying the interactions between isolated forest ecosystems and the vegetation around the forest reserves as pasture gives way to scrubby, second-growth vegetation
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.4
title: Manaus Forest Dynamics Plot

description: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Louisiana State University, and Universidad de Sao Paulo have initiated the establishment of a large-scale research plot in central Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Topography shows an elevation range of 46 m. This plot is expected to be one of the most diverse in the CTFS network, comparable to the one in Yasuni, Ecuador, despite its location near the low end of the spectrum of soil fertility across the Amazon Basin.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.5
title: Manaus Forest Dynamics Plot, Brazil

description: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Louisiana State University, and Universidad de Sao Paulo have initiated the establishment of a large-scale research plot in central Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Topography shows an elevation range of 46 m. This plot is expected to be one of the most diverse in the CTFS network, comparable to the one in Yasuni, Ecuador, despite its location near the low end of the spectrum of soil fertility across the Amazon Basin.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.6
title: Manaus Forest Dynamics Plot, Brazil

description: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Louisiana State University, and Universidad de Sao Paulo have initiated the establishment of a large-scale research plot in central Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Topography shows an elevation range of 46 m. This plot is expected to be one of the most diverse in the CTFS network, comparable to the one in Yasuni, Ecuador, despite its location near the low end of the spectrum of soil fertility across the Amazon Basin.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.326.7
title: Manaus Forest Dynamics Plot, Brazil

description: The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Louisiana State University, and Universidad de Sao Paulo have initiated the establishment of a large-scale research plot in central Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Topography shows an elevation range of 46 m. This plot is expected to be one of the most diverse in the CTFS network, comparable to the one in Yasuni, Ecuador, despite its location near the low end of the spectrum of soil fertility across the Amazon Basin.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.327.1
title: La Planada Forest dynamics Plot, Colombia

description: High in Andean cloud forest lies the 25-ha La Planada Forest Dynamics Plot in the La Planada Nature Reserve. The La Planada plot was established in 1996 by the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos 'Alexander von Humboldt' and CTFS/STRI. The plot's site represents a gradient from the plateau of La Planada (1718 m) to the slopes leading to the surrounding ridges (1844 m), and researchers are interested in how the forest changes over this gradient. The La Planada site provides interesting parrallels to the Asian montane site, Doi Inthanon Forest Dynamics Plot.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.327.2
title: La Planada Forest dynamics Plot, Colombia

description: High in Andean cloud forest lies the 25-ha La Planada Forest Dynamics Plot in the La Planada Nature Reserve. The La Planada plot was established in 1996 by the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos 'Alexander von Humboldt' and CTFS/STRI. The plot's site represents a gradient from the plateau of La Planada (1718 m) to the slopes leading to the surrounding ridges (1844 m), and researchers are interested in how the forest changes over this gradient. The La Planada site provides interesting parrallels to the Asian montane site, Doi Inthanon Forest Dynamics Plot.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.327.3
title: La Planada Forest dynamics Plot, Colombia

description: High in Andean cloud forest lies the 25-ha La Planada Forest Dynamics Plot in the La Planada Nature Reserve. The La Planada plot was established in 1996 by the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos 'Alexander von Humboldt' and CTFS/STRI. The plot's site represents a gradient from the plateau of La Planada (1718 m) to the slopes leading to the surrounding ridges (1844 m), and researchers are interested in how the forest changes over this gradient. The La Planada site provides interesting parrallels to the Asian montane site, Doi Inthanon Forest Dynamics Plot.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.327.4
title: La Planada Forest dynamics Plot, Colombia

description: High in Andean cloud forest lies the 25-ha La Planada Forest Dynamics Plot in the La Planada Nature Reserve. The La Planada plot was established in 1996 by the Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos 'Alexander von Humboldt' and CTFS/STRI. The plot's site represents a gradient from the plateau of La Planada (1718 m) to the slopes leading to the surrounding ridges (1844 m), and researchers are interested in how the forest changes over this gradient. The La Planada site provides interesting parrallels to the Asian montane site, Doi Inthanon Forest Dynamics Plot.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.328.15
title: Analysis of long-term litter decomposition experiments

description: Although numerous short-term experiments have been used to develop conceptual and simulation models of decomposition, very little is known about the later stages of this process. Exclusion of this later stage has led, at best, to incomplete understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen dynamics. This working group examined the wealth of litter and decomposition data that has been produced by several recent long-term field experiments. Our analysis will initially be based on data from LIDET (Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team), a 27-site experiment conducted over a 10-year period.
DOI: 10.5063/aa/nceas.328.17
title: Analysis of long-term litter decomposition experiments

description: Although numerous short-term experiments have been used to develop conceptual and simulation models of decomposition, very little is known about the later stages of this process. Exclusion of this later stage has led, at best, to incomplete understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen dynamics. This working group examined the wealth of litter and decomposition data that has been produced by several recent long-term field experiments. Our analysis will initially be based on data from LIDET (Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team), a 27-site experiment conducted over a 10-year period.