Objectives

The project aims to better quantify two key ecosystem services, carbon sequestration and wood production, in logged and managed Amazonian tropical forests. This is a prerequisite to propose new evidence-based forest management practices concealing both economic and environmental sustainability. To do so, long-term impacts of selective logging on main carbon pools and timber volume recoveries will be assessed in several permanent forest plots monitored since the 80’s by both proponent institutions.

 The main objectives are:

• assessing the recovery of both timber volume and main carbon pools (tree biomass, coarse wood debris, litter and carbon in soil) after logging;
• finding the best compromise between timber production and carbon storage;
• consolidating data related to the impact of silviculture in Amazonian forests

The project will benefit from the recent development of a pantropical network (Tropical managed Forest Observatory (TmFO) Sist etal. 2015) in South America to address the regional response of Amazon forests to logging. This network, set up in 2012, rely upon an international panel of researchers and foresters working across the Amazon Basin.

Localisation

• Amazonia

Partners

• Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Embrapa Amazoni Ocidental, Embrapa Amapá, Cirad, ecofog

Funds

100.000 euros, Agropolis-Embrapa