The DryFlor Field Manual for Plot Establishment and Remeasurement

BANDA-R, KARINA; PENNINGTON, R. TOBY; FAJARDO, LAURIE; LLOYD, JON; QUINTANA, CATALINA; MARIA VILLELA, DORA; TADEU BRUNELLO, ALEXANDRE; CHAO, KUO-JUNG; DOMINGUES, TOMAS; FERREIRA FERNANDES, MOABE; LEVESLEY, AURORA; MIATTO, RAQUEL C.; SOELMA BESERRA DE MOURA, MAGNA; NICORA CHEQUÍN, RENATA; PAGANUCCI DE QUEIROZ, L.; REYNEL, CARLOS; SÄRKINEN, TIINA; VASQUEZ, RODOLFO; MOONLIGHT, PETER W.; DEXTER, KYLE G.; C. DE LIMA, HAROLDO; LINARES-PALOMINO, REYNALDO; PRADO, DARIÉN E.; RODRÍGUEZ M., GINA M.; BEZERRA, CIDNEY; CARDOSO, DOMINGOS; CUNHA, JOHN; FELDPAUSCH, TED R.; JIMÉNEZ, ELIANA MARÍA; MARIMON, BEATRIZ; MONTEAGUDO, ABEL; NEVES, DANILO; ALMEIDA DE OLIVEIRA, EDMAR; MARQUES RAMOS, DESIRÉE; SANTOS, RUBENS; SOUZA, RODOLFO M. S.; PHILLIPS, OLIVER L.; BAKER, TIM R.; GONZÁLEZ-M., ROY; NASCIMENTO, MARCELO; RIINA, RICARDA; ARROYO, LUZMILA; BRIENEN, ROEL J. W.; COTTA COUTINHO, ÍTALO ANTÔNIO; ESPÍRITO SANTO, MÁRIO MARCOS; GOODWIN, ZOË A.; LOPEZ-TOLEDO, LEONEL; MIZUSHIMA, MARCELO; MURAKAMI, ALEJANDRO; CÉSAR DE SOUSA OLIVEIRA, TO

2019-07-01/2020-07-31

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Biológica

Rec.Nat.Renov.-Conservacion y preservacion

DRYFLOR 2020: The DryFlor Field Manual for Plot Establishment and Remeasurement. . First edition (in English), 29 pp.The DRYFLOR (Latin American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Floristic Network) Field Manual for Plot Establishment and Remeasurement (referred to herein as the DRYFLOR Plot Protocol) provides guidance for monitoring of woody stems (trees and lianas) in long-term permanent dry forests sample plots with a standard protocol to monitor forest biomass, compositional shifts and dynamics, and thus relate these observations to floristics, soil and climate across dry forests.The DRYFLOR Plot Protocol is designed for studies with, but not limited to, the following objectives:1. Quantify long term changes in plot floristics, structure, biomass, and turnover.2. Relate plot current floristics, structure, ecophysiology, biomass and dynamics to local climate, soil properties and land-use history.3. Understand the relationships among floristics, ecosystem function, productivity, mortality and biomass.4. Use relationships of (1) to (3) to understand how changes in climate may affect the floristics, biomass and productivity of dry forests as a whole, and inform biome-scale models of carbon dynamics.5. Examine variability of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic tree diversity across dry forests, and its relationship to soils and climate.6. Facilitate comparisons of (1) to (5) among dry forests and other biomes.Furthermore, theThe DRYFLOR Plot Protocol is designed for studies with, but not limited to, the following objectives:1. Quantify long term changes in plot floristics, structure, biomass, and turnover.2. Relate plot current floristics, structure, ecophysiology, biomass and dynamics to local climate, soil properties and land-use history.3. Understand the relationships among floristics, ecosystem function, productivity, mortality and biomass.4. Use relationships of (1) to (3) to understand how changes in climate may affect the floristics, biomass and productivity of dry forests as a whole, and inform biome-scale models of carbon dynamics.5. Examine variability of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic tree diversity across dry forests, and its relationship to soils and climate.6. Facilitate comparisons of (1) to (5) among dry forests and other biomes.