A network to understand the changing socio‐ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW): Challenges, benefits, and methods

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“…plot size, likeliness to be revisited). We screened the following continental to global‐scale forest plot networks for potential sites of interest: AfriTRON (Hubau et al, 2020 ), ForestGEO (Davies et al, 2021 ), IIASA (Schepaschenko et al, 2017 ), NEON (Metzger et al, 2019 ), RAINFOR (ForestPlots.net et al, 2021 ), SEOSAW (The SEOSAW Partnership, 2020 ), TERN (Cleverly et al, 2019 ) and TmFO (Sist et al, 2015 ). Peer‐reviewed and grey literature were also searched, and expert knowledge mobilized through consultation with key stakeholders, such as EO mission research scientists, space agencies and national forest/forestry departments.…”

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Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

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Global Change Biology

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Forests contribute to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and uptake, but the extent to which this carbon pool varies in space and time is still poorly known.Several Earth Observation missions have been specifically designed to address this issue, for example, NASA's GEDI, NASA-ISRO's NISAR and ESA's BIOMASS. Yet, all these missions' products require independent and consistent validation. A permanent, global, in situ, site-based forest biomass reference measurement system relying on ground data of the highest possible quality is therefore needed. Here, we have assembled a list of almost 200 high-quality sites through an in-depth review of the literature and expert knowledge. In this study, we explore how representative these sites are in terms of their coverage of environmental conditions, geographical space and biomassrelated forest structure, compared to those experienced by forests worldwide. This work also aims at identifying which sites are the most representative, and where to invest to improve the representativeness of the proposed system. We show that the environmental coverage of the system does not seem to improve after at least the

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Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

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Davies

Disney

et al. 2022

Global Change Biology

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“…Another useful potential addition is collaborative work with social scientists in order to capture local knowledge, and to understand whether the resource extraction leads to win-lose or lose-lose scenarios locally (Smith et al, 2019). The transects can be done as a stand-alone activity or in addition to more detailed assessments in long-term vegetation plots (The SEOSAW Partnership, 2020), opportunistic botanical sampling or other types of surveys. Rapid transects cannot replace the depth of assessment possible in permanent plots, and large plots are also necessary for the calibration of radar (McNicol et al, 2018) as using narrow transects to relate radar to biomass is very challenging (Réjou-Méchain et al, 2014;Smith, 2018).…”

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Detecting and predicting forest degradation: A comparison of ground surveys and remote sensing in Tanzanian forests

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“…Bottom: The same with ForestPlots.net sampling displayed at higher-resolution (1-degree grid cells) for South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia and Australia. While forests are unevenly sampled, most of the climatic and geographic space across the humid tropics is represented [49] and some less sampled regions here are better covered by complementary networks (e.g., African woodlands by SEOSAW [50]; East Asian forests by ForestGEO [48]).…”

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Sensing Forests Directly: The Power of Permanent Plots

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2023

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The need to measure, monitor, and understand our living planet is greater than ever. Yet, while many technologies are applied to tackle this need, one developed in the 19th century is transforming tropical ecology. Permanent plots, in which forests are directly sensed tree-by-tree and species-by-species, already provide a global public good. They could make greater contributions still by unlocking our potential to understand future ecological change, as the more that computational and remote technologies are deployed the greater the need to ground them with direct observations and the physical, nature-based skills of those who make them. To achieve this requires building profound connections with forests and disadvantaged communities and sustaining these over time. Many of the greatest needs and opportunities in tropical forest science are therefore not to be found in space or in silico, but in vivo, with the people, places and plots who experience nature directly. These are fundamental to understanding the health, predicting the future, and exploring the potential of Earth’s richest ecosystems. Now is the time to invest in the tropical field research communities who make so much possible.

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A network to understand the changing socio‐ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW): Challenges, benefits, and methods

Cited by 19 publications

References 141 publications

Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

Detecting and predicting forest degradation: A comparison of ground surveys and remote sensing in Tanzanian forests

Sensing Forests Directly: The Power of Permanent Plots

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