News
December 2010
Plot data from 179 plots from African and South America is now publically available. South American plot data comes from Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. Information on the field campaigns can be found in www.rainfor.org.
September 2010
Forest Plots.net is included in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (www.givd.info)
Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, ForestPlots.net database manager has been invited to participate to in the Steering Committee of the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (www.givd.info)
March 2010
The plot data from the Bolivia field campaign, carried out in 2009, are now publically available.
The field campaign was coordinated by Roel Brienen (University of Leeds), Abel Monteagudo (Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Perú) and Alejandro Murakami (Museo de Historia Natural de Parque Noel Kempff, Bolivia). For more information visit www.rainfor.org
December 2009
Forest Plots database used to prepare for the Copenhagen UN meeting.
Simon Lewis together with Geertje Van Der Heijden collated and coordinated the uploading of over 100 forest plots across Central Africa to produce carbon maps, to assist the Government of Gabon in preparing for the UN Climage Change summit in Copenhagen. This work was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore and Daniel and Lucile Packard Foundations.
New features available in the Forest Plots Database.
Registered users can use the Public Library to view and download biomass, basal area and stem count information for the publicly available plots.
October 2009
Loreto, Iquitos (Peru) data publicly available.
Roel Brienen (Leeds, UK) and Abel Monteagudo (Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Peru) led the team that remeasured plots in north eastern Peru. During the fieldwork 2 new plots were also established. The data from this field campaign is now publicly available. For more information visit
www.rainfor.org
September 2009
Venezuela data publicly available.
In February 2009, Geertje van der Heijden (Leeds, UK), Emilio Vilanova and Pedro Salcedo (both from Universidad de los Andes) remeasured 21 0.25ha plots in Venezuela. A large number of the remeasured plots have been established by J. Veillon in the 1960's and are consequently some of the longest running permanent plots included in the Forest Plots database. The data from this field campaign is now publicly available. For more information visit
www.rainfor.org
May 2009
Nouragues (French Guiana) data publicly available.
Ted Feldpausch (University of Leeds, UK & USA), Lilian Blanc (CIRAD, French Guiana), Jérôme Chave (CNRS, France) and Abel Monteagudo (Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Peru) led the work which now becomes one of the largest publicly available tree inventories in the internet-based Forest Plots database under the RAINFOR-Moore project, with more than 13,000 trees measured during the seven week trip. RAINFOR participants from Brasil, Suriname, UK, Spain, France and Switzerland, including two M.Sc. students and one Ph.D. student, helped to complete the large-scale inventory. The data from this field campaign is now publicly available. For more information visit www.rainfor.org
February 2009
Forest plot data from Amazonian Peru are publicly available.
Plots in Madre de Dios, Peru were re-measured in 2008 with funding from the Moore Foundation. Abel Monteagudo from the Missouri Botanical Garden (Oxapampa, Peru) and Roel Brienen and Oliver
Phillips from the University of Leeds (UK) co-ordinated the field teams. The data from this field campaign is now publicly available. For more information visit www.rainfor.org