From plots to policy: How to ensure long‐term forest plot data supports environmental management in intact tropical forest landscapes

Baker, Tim R.; Miñano, Edgar Vicuña; Banda-R, Karina; Torres, Dennis Del Castillo; Farfán-Ríos, William; Lawson, Ian T.; Alemán, Eva Loja; Camacho, Nadir Pallqui; Silman, Miles R.; Roucoux, Katherine H.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Coronado, Eurídice N. Honorio; Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo; Gonzáles, Rocío Rojas

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“…Fuller environmental coverage can help networks address challenges such as monitoring of protected area effectiveness (Baker et al, 2020) and providing calibration-validation of Earth Observation space-borne sensors (Chave et al, 2019). Beyond the lowland humid tropics, special effort is also needed for long-term, ground-based monitoring in particular environments.…”

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“…Ecology and conservation science remain biased towards temperate ecosystems in terms of funding and topical focus (Di Marco et al, 2017;Reboredo Segovia et al, 2020), while tropical ecology is often detached from policy-making processes and most high-impact papers are still led from the North. Together with open data-sharing and long-term collaboration, more leadership of forest science from tropical countries helps to address these disparities and achieve more impact on forest and carbon management (e.g., Vargas et al, 2017;Baker et al, 2020). Supporting tropical students at different levels up to Ph.D. and mentoring beyond the doctoral degree is also important.…”

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“…The impacts of these networks on policy are also growing. In Peru for example, ForestPlots.net, MonANPeru and RAINFOR have contributed to estimating National Forest Reference Emission Levels (NREF) since 2016, and our permanent plots are now being used to validate national contributions to the Paris Climate Accord via forest carbon sequestration (Vicuña Miñano et al, 2018;Baker et al, 2020). In Ghana, plots were needed to quantify historical and current carbon stocks, helping to establish baseline forest reference levels for the flagship Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (FCPF, 2017).…”

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“…The work took place in one of the 72 permanent forest plots for the long-term study at the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO). Permanent forest dynamic plots have become an important starting point for the development of research in tropical ecosystems across a wide range of fields [ 43 ]. The little anthropogenic disturbance that occurs in Yasuní Forest Dynamic Plot allowed us to observe and report growth patterns of fungi, including the colonization of new substrates and the production of basidiomata and rhizomorphs across four years of sampling.…”

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Taxonomy of the major rhizomorphic species of the “Melanopus group” within Polyporaceae in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

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Yasuní National Park in Ecuador is one of the most biodiverse places on earth. The fungi in this tropical rainforest are also diverse but have received little research attention. This research paper focuses on an important group of fungi in the family Polyporaceae and examines the genera Polyporus, Atroporus, and Neodictyopus that form aerial melanized cord-like structures called rhizomorphs. Phylogenetic analyses, macro and micromorphological descriptions of basidiomata and rhizomorphs, as well as cultural characterization were completed to better understand these ecologically important fungi. Here we describe four new species: Atroporus yasuniensis, Atroporus tagaeri, Neodictyopus sylvaticus, and Polyporus taromenane, and a new variety Polyporus leprieurii var. yasuniensis. The information presented in this study adds important new knowledge about the unusual rhizomorph producing fungi found in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador and other tropical rainforests.

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“…Prior to this, IPCC Tier 1 default values were based on a handful of studies per ecological zone (Gibbs et al, 2007;Langner et al, 2014). The results of both chapters highlight how forest plots measured for research purposes can be used for Tier 1 reporting and monitoring of forest carbon stocks and sinks, be it for national-level reporting to the UNFCCC as well as for large-scale forest GHG flux studies (Baker et al, 2020;ForestPlots.net et al, 2020;Gibbs et al, 2007). In Chapter 2, the inclusion of NFI plots was done in the absence of research plots.…”

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Aboveground carbon stocks and sinks in recovering tropical forests

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Chapter 2 Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refinement of IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests 13Chapter 3 Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data 39Chapter 4 Variation in aboveground biomass in forests and woodlands in Tanzania along gradients in environmental conditions and human use 69Chapter 5 Forest disturbance and recovery in Peruvian Amazonia 87Chapter 6 Synthesis 109References 127Acknowledgements 159About the author 163 PE&RC Training and Education Statement 167For the UNFCCC parties it is necessary to quantify and understand current (sub)tropical forest carbon sources, stocks and sinks, as well as identify ways in which stocks and sinks can be enhanced. For these purposes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) supports the UNFCCC by providing monitoring guidelines as well as up-to-date scientific information on GHG emissions and removals from land use, land use changeRecently, the extent of undisturbed forests has been decreasing through deforestation and degradation. The latter process has led to the increase of disturbed forests (Lewis et al., 2015;Potapov et al., 2017). It is estimated that 30% of existing tropical forests and 40% of existing subtropical forests considered as degraded (Mercer, 2015). Due to the extent, importance and vulnerability of disturbed forests, disturbed forests need to be integrated into GHG monitoring frameworks (Bustamante et al., 2016).Plot-level AGB (in Mg ha −1 ) is calculated as the sum of tree-level AGB estimates (in Mg) per plot size (in ha). The size of plots can vary greatly: in this thesis, forest plot sizes range from 0.001 to 42 ha. To represent large areas of forests, we expect better plot-level estimates in larger plots (Hernández-Stefanoni et al., 2018;Mauya et al., 2015). However, Thesis overviewThis PhD thesis is divided into 6 chapters. Chapter 1, which you are now reading, provides a brief introduction into the current state of knowledge regarding aboveground forest carbon stocks and sinks, current research gaps and possibilities to address them. The following four chapters seek to answer both research objectives by leveraging AGB forest plot data from different sources with remote sensing products and analysis, considering varying environmental and human use gradients and providing AGB and ∆AGB estimates at different scales. Figure 1.2 provides a conceptual overview of how Chapters 2 through 5 relate to R.O.1 and R.O.2. Chapter 2 provides a refinement of the IPCC 2006 default AGB values for natural forests in (sub)tropical forest ecozones. This is done by incorporating AGB data from forest plots, and deriving separate estimates for young secondary forests, older secondary forests and for old-growth (i.e. undisturbed) forest. For areas where plot data is not available, remote-sensing datasets are used to estimate default values. Furthermore, areas with limited forest ...

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From plots to policy: How to ensure long‐term forest plot data supports environmental management in intact tropical forest landscapes

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Cited by 11 publications

References 77 publications

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

Taxonomy of the major rhizomorphic species of the “Melanopus group” within Polyporaceae in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

Aboveground carbon stocks and sinks in recovering tropical forests

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