PELD Florestas de Roraima - Brazil

The PELD FORR site is compound by five locations represented by two protected areas (Viruá National Park, hereafter, PNV, and Maracá Ecological Station, hereafter EEM), which are part of the Program for Research in Biodiversity (PPBio / MCTI), and three private forest areas. The selected protected areas are important for the conservation of several tree species (such as Centrolobium paraense), medium and large mammals, and several species of birds of conservation concern. Each of the protected areas selected as our study sites has a network of 30 permanent plots of 1 hectare, which are systematically distributed over an area of ~25 km2, and where ~20,000 trees are marked, mapped, and being monitored at intervals of five years ...