What exactly is a forest dynamics plot?

22 January 2014 1 7K Report

What is the purpose and how is data collected or used when gathered from these plots? Is it different from simple plots that are monitored over time?

Kathryn E Barry

I believe specified forest dynamics plots are all larger than 1 ha (often 25 ha or larger) and monitored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Center for Tropical Forest Science and ForestGEO network. The full list of sites is available here: http://www.ctfs.si.edu/plots/

Sampling protocol and description: http://www.ctfs.si.edu/group/About/

To use the data from a specific site you can usually contact one of the PI's (also available on the CTFS website).

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