Tropical Managed Forests Observatory

How do tropical forests recover post-logging?

While attention on logging in the tropics has been increasing, studies on the long-term effects of silviculture on forest dynamics and ecology remain scare and spatially limited. Indeed, most of our knowledge on tropical forests arises from studies carried out in undisturbed tropical forests. This bias is problematic given that logged and disturbed tropical forests are now covering a larger area than the so-called primary forests.

So what do we do about that knowledge gap? The Tropical Managed Forest Observatory seeks to address this problem with a network of permanent sample plots across the world.

Thomson Reuters Foundation has an article about it.