Long-term monitoring of the dynamics of an logging forest conventional and forest management techniques in the Eastern Amazon and its relationship with climate change in forests managed for wood production

• Grant number: 13/16262-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Forest Management
• Principal Investigator: Edson José Vidal da Silva
• Grantee: Edson José Vidal da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: James Edward Grogan Jr. ; João Luís Ferreira Batista ; Mark David Schulze ; Thales Augusto Pupo West ; Tito Nunes de Castro

Abstract

This project aims to compare the dynamics of a forest using techniques reduced impact logging (RIL) with another conventionally logging (CL) in a property the name Agrosete Farm (3 S, 50° W), in Paragominas, in the northeast of the State of Pará. The studies will be carried out in an area of 210 ha, of which 75 ha were operated conventionally, 105 ha were explored using RIL techniques and 30 ha have not been exploited (control). The area was explored in 1993 and monitored until 2009. They located three blocks with sub-divided plots randomised controlled trials, being a block in each treatment (RIL, CL and control). In each block of 24.5 ha (350 m x 700 m) were established 49 plots of the 0.5 ha (50 m x 100 m. In each block was also established another subplot of 5.25 ha (75 m x 700 m). For each treatment shall be calculated the Periodic Annual Increment (IPA) in DBH, basal area and volume, and the Current Annual Increments (ICAs) in dbh and volume during the period of 1993 to 2013. Also mortality and recruitment will be calculated in each treatment, as well as the total carbon stock and annual. With the scientific results of this research project is expected to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of post-intervention rainforests, monitoring the development of post-harvest forest, carbon stock in managed areas. These information are rare in forest sciences and substantially are important information to predict the future of these managed forests and the role of the management of native forests in global climate change. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PIPONIOT, CAMILLE; RUTISHAUSER, ERVAN; DERROIRE, GERALDINE; PUTZ, FRANCIS E.; SIST, PLINIO; WEST, THALES A. P.; DESCROIX, LAURENT; GUEDES, MARCELINO CARNEIRO; HONORIO CORONADO, EURIDICE N.; KANASHIRO, MILTON; et al. Optimal strategies for ecosystem services provision in Amazonian production forests. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, v. 14, n. 12, DEC 2019. (13/50718-5, 13/16262-4)

PIPONIOT, CAMILLE; RODIG, EDNA; PUTZ, FRANCIS E.; RUTISHAUSER, ERVAN; SIST, PLINIO; ASCARRUNZ, NATALY; BLANC, LILIAN; DERROIRE, GERALDINE; DESCROIX, LAURENT; GUEDES, MARCELINO CARNEIRO; et al. Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, v. 14, n. 6, JUN 2019. (13/50718-5, 13/16262-4)

SCHEPASCHENKO, DMITRY; CHAVE, JEROME; PHILLIPS, OLIVER L.; LEWIS, SIMON L.; DAVIES, STUART J.; REJOU-MECHAIN, MAXIME; SIST, PLINIO; SCIPAL, KLAUS; PERGER, CHRISTOPH; HERAULT, BRUNO; et al. The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. SCIENTIFIC DATA, v. 6, OCT 10 2019. (13/50718-5, 13/16262-4)

NAVES, RAFAELA PEREIRA; GROTAN, VIDAR; PRADO, PAULO INACIO; VIDAL, EDSON; FERREIRA BATISTA, JOAO LUIS. Tropical forest management altered abundances of individual tree species but not diversity. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 475, NOV 1 2020. (13/16262-4, 13/50718-5, 15/26892-0, 14/09219-8)

VIDAL, EDSON; WEST, THALES A. P.; PUTZ, FRANCIS E.. Recovery of biomass and merchantable timber volumes twenty years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 376, p. 1-8, SEP 15 2016. (09/13277-5, 13/16262-4)

PIPONIOT, CAMILLE; SIST, PLINIO; MAZZEI, LUCAS; PENA-CLAROS, MARIELOS; PUTE, FRANCIS E.; RUTISHAUSER, ERVAN; SHENKIN, ALEXANDER; ASCARRUNZ, NATALY; DE AZEVEDO, CELSO P.; BARALOTO, CHRISTOPHER; et al. Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests. eLIFE, v. 5, DEC 20 2016. (13/50718-5, 13/16262-4)