Overview
ForestGEO supports research associated with our network of forest sites through the Research Grants Program. The grant program provides opportunities for senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to use existing ForestGEO sites to conduct research with scientists affiliated with them.
The following includes a collection of past grant recipients, their nationality, the proposal title and subject, the locations for study, and available final reports. This collection includes grant projects from 2002 up to 2017.
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AWARDEES |
NATIONALITY OF AWARDEE | PROPOSAL TITLE |
STUDY SITE |
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Cycle: 2017 |
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Abiem, Iveren |
Nigeria | The role of topography, rainfall and inter-specific negative density dependence in shaping species distributions in tropical Afromontane Forest | Ngel Nyaki, Nigeria | |
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Keller, Adrienne |
USA | A tree’s perspective of forest nutrient cycling: linking above- and belowground tree nutrient strategies | SERC, USA; Lilly Dickey Woods, USA; Harvard Forest, USA | |
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Mathias, Justin |
USA | Using dendroisotopes to disentangle processes of forest recovery from decades of acid deposition | SCBI, USA | |
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McMichael, Crystal |
USA | Lichen diversity along a latitudinal gradient | San Lorenzo, Panama; Amacayacu, Colombia; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
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Pongpattananurak, Nantachai |
Thailand | Lichen diversity along a latitudinal gradient | HKK, Thailand | |
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Raczka, Nanette |
USA | Lichen diversity along a latitudinal gradient | SCBI, USA | |
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Zuleta, Daniel |
Colombia | Lichen diversity along a latitudinal gradient | Amacayacu, Colombia | |
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Cycle: 2016 |
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Cerqueira, Marconi Campos |
Brazil | A new look at spatial patterns of species diversity through acoustic monitoring | Amacayacu, Colombia; BCI, Panama; Harvard Forest, USA; Ilha do Cardoso, Brazil; Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Manaus, Brazil; SCBI, USA; SERC, USA; Wabikon, USA; Yosemite, USA | |
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Chuyong, George B. |
Cameroon | Seedling mortality along a water availability continuum in a strongly seasonal tropical forest at Korup National Park, SW Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
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Jackson, Tobias |
UK | Tree mechanics and wind dynamics - fieldwork in Danum Valley, Borneo | Danum Valley, Malaysia; Wytham Woods, UK | |
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Midoko Iponga, Donald |
Gabon | The potential impact of the interaction between host forest tree species and wood-inhabiting fungi in the Rabi plot in Gabon: Do wood-inhabiting fungi impact tree growth and mortality in Rabi plot? | Rabi, Gabon | |
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Milligan, Patrick Devin |
USA | Consequences of big-headed ant invasion for a key ecosystem function in an East African savanna | Mpala, Kenya | |
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Pappas, Christoforos |
Greece | Plant trait plasticity in a boreal forest undergoing rapid environmental changes | Danum Valley, Malaysia; Wytham Woods, UK | |
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Scharnagl, Klara |
USA | Lichen diversity along a latitudinal gradient | BCI, Panama; Harvard Forest, USA; Scotty Creek Forest, Canada; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
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Toapanta, Cristina, E. |
Ecuador | Understanding the biology and ecology of a new rhizomorphic Polyporus species from the Yasuni National Park Forest Dynamic Plot, Ecuador | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
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Cycle: 2015 |
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Becker, Kendall |
USA | Controls on post-fire seedling recruitment in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot, California, USA | Yosemite, USA | |
| Drager, Andrea | USA | Staying connected: how pollination relates to tree density in the Afrotropics | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Dyer, James | USA | Using a Water Balance Approach to Examine Temperate Forest Dynamics in Complex Terrain | SCBI, USA; Lilly Dickey Woods, USA; Tyson Research Center, USA | |
| Kraichak, Ekaphan | Thailand | Relative Importances of Host Characters and Spatial Structure on Tropical Epiphytic Communities | Khao Chong, Thailand | |
| Riutta, Terhi | Finland | Quantifying ecosystem effects of insect herbivory on common oak in Wytham Woods, UK | Wytham Woods, UK | |
| Stark, Scott | USA | Rapidly advancing understanding of sizestructured forest dynamics in temperate and tropical forests with a highthroughput remote sensing approach | BCI, Panama; SERC, USA | |
| Cycle: 2014 | ||||
| Craig, Matthew | USA | Framework for quantifying drivers of soil carbon dynamics | Lilly Dicky Woods, SCBI, SERC, Tyson Research Center, and Wind River, USA | |
| Jaramillo, Carlos | Colombia | Pollen flora of the Amacayacu 25 Ha Plot: adding a geological time scale dimension to SIGEO plots | Amacayacu, Colombia | |
| Lewis, Owen | UK | Botanical and entomological datasets | Wanang, Papau New Guinea | |
| Ng, Jan | USA | Shifts in tree spatial patterns following reintroduction of fire disturbance | Yosemite, USA | |
| Zhang, Jian | China | Testing the potentials of drones in CTFS long-term monitoring network | Dinghushan, China | |
| Cycle: 2013 | ||||
| Barth, Molly | USA | Fire history of the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot | Yosemite, CA, USA | |
| Cushman, KC | USA | Estimates of biomass change in buttressed trees | Yasuni, Ecuador; Bukit Timah, Singapore; Khao Chong and Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand | |
| Dahl, Chris | Papua New Guinea | Assemblages of seed-and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rainforests | BCI, Panama; Khao Chong, Thailand; and Wanang, Papua New Guinea | |
| Kimuyu, Duncan | Kenya | Elephant browsing damage on Acacia drepanolobium trees | Mpala, Kenya | |
| Lien, Lien | Canada | Seed dispersal within the Korup National Park and Southwest Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| McEwan, Ryan | USA | Taxonomic and functional diversity, and typhoon impacts on subtropical forests of Taiwan | Fushan and Lienhuachih, Taiwan | |
| McNickle, Gordon | Canada | Model for tree allocation to roots, wood and leaves based evolutionary stable strategies | Scotty Creek, USA | |
| Min, Kang | Sri Lanka | Loss of large fauna on the dispersal and recruitment of big seeded plan - Bukit Timah, Pasoh, Lambir, and Khao Chong | Bukit Timah, Pasoh, Lambir, and Khao Chong | |
| Spasojevic, Marko | USA | Regional functional diversity on local community assembly across a temperate biodiversity gradient | Tyson Research Center, SERC, and Yosemite, USA | |
| Umana, Maria Natalia | Colombia | Negative Density Dependence in the Xishuangbanna Forest | Xishuangbanna, China | |
| Wei, Na | China | Ecological and genetic consequences of effective seed dispersal in tropical trees | BCI, Panama | |
| Cycle: 2010 | ||||
| Chen, Lei | China | The role of density dependence in community assembly: Implications from adult tree patt ern and seedling dynamics in both subtropical and tropical forest | Gutianshan, China | |
| Enright, Neal | Australia | Understanding the population dynamics of Nageia motleyi (Podocarpaceae) in lowland tropical rainforests of South-east Asia | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Ferraz, Gonçalo; Cornelius, Cintia | Brazil | Predicting occurrence of cavity-nesting birds from tree demographic data. | Manaus, Brazil | |
| Gorchov, David L.; McCormick, Melissa K.; Whigham, Dennis F. | USA | Exotic Plant Invasion in Temperate Deciduous Forest: Patterns and processes | SERC, USA | |
| Kembel, Steven; Green, Jessica | Canada | Quantifying the scaling of bacterial phyllosphere diversity: The role of space, environment, and host plant attributes | BCI, Panama | |
| Quinn, Eadaoin M.I. | USA | Does age-related crown thinning occur in canopy-dominant tropical trees? | BCI, Panama | |
| Siewe, Siewe Siewe; Vadjunec, Jacqueline | Cameroon | Degradation and carbon stocks dynamics: An analysis of the anthropogenic impact on deforestation and degradation in the Korup National Park | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Spear, Erin | USA | Agents of change: Identifying phytopathogens and their contributions to tree diversity | BCI, Panama | |
| Tiansawat, Pimonrat | Malaysia | Ecological significance of seed traits in the genus Macaranga | Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Cycle: 2009 | ||||
| Alves, Luciana | Brazil | Assessment of aboveground carbon pools of a tropical moist forest (Ilha do Cardoso, Brazil) | Ihla do Cardozo, Brazil | |
| Burnham, Robyn | USA | Liana diversity and abundance on ten half-hectare plots in PDBFF (CTFS) and PPBIO sites near Manaus, Brazil | BDFFP & near sites | |
| Inman-Narahari, Faith | USA | Seed Rain and Seedling Recruitment in Hawai’i | Laupahoehoe, Hawaii | |
| Witte, Isabelle | Canada | Are boreal forests more structurally complex than temperate or tropical forests, and at which scales? A comparison of tropical, temperate, and boreal mixedwood systems | BCI, Panama | |
| Hardesty, Britta Denise | USA | Where have all the parents gone – using inverse modeling to predict the location of unobserved parents in tropical forests | BCI, Panama | |
| Parker, John | USA | Impacts of alien plant invasions and overabundant deer on forest regeneration and community dynamics in a temperate deciduous forest | SERC, USA | |
| Rueger, Nadja | Germany | Parameterization of an individual-based forest model for Barro Colorado Island, Panama | BCI, Panama | |
| Xioajuan, Liu | China | Relationships between traits and species distribution: a BCI-GTS comparison | BCI, Panama; Gutianshan, China | |
| Tang, Yong | China | Seeds are washed away: the role of streams in the seed dynamics in a 20 ha Dipterocarp rainforest | Xishuangbanna, China | |
| Cycle: 2008 | ||||
| Chen, Yu-Yun | Taiwan, Republic of China | A test of density dependence in various life stage transitions in a lowland dipterocarp forest: contrasting species performance between general flowering and non-general flowering years. | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Dick, Christopher | USA | Well dispersed or well disguised? A curatorial initiative focused on 85 tree species shared between BCI and Yasuní | BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador; Manaus, Brazil | |
| Greenberg, David; Mazer, Susan J. | USA | Surface flow, solar radiation, and tree distributions: can we untangle the effects of water and light on tropical forest community structure? | Yasuni, Ecuador; Korup, Cameroon; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Jones, Andy; Jansen, Patrick | USA | Density-dependent reproduction and pollen flow in a common Neotropical tree: a landscape-scale study of Jacaranda copaia on Barro Colorado Island, Panama | BCI, Panama | |
| Khoon, Kho Lip; Malhi, Yadvinder; Tan Kheng San, Sylvester | Malaysia | Exploring Belowground Productivity and Carbon Cycling of Tropical Forest in the 52-ha Lambir Hills Forest Dynamics Plot | Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Manzane, Eric | Panama | Linking liana seedling population ecology at regional and local scale in the Panama Isthmus | BCI, Panama | |
| Zanforlin Martini, Adriana Maria | Brazil | Do sympatric species of Myrtaceae diverge in their germination requirements in a restinga forest? | Ilha do Cardoso, Brazil | |
| Zhang, Jian Zhang | PR China | The Role of Seed Morphology on Seed Dispersal and Forest Regeneration in a 25 ha Old-growth Temperate Forest Plot | Changbaishan, China | |
| Cycle: 2007 | ||||
| Consunji, Hazel T. | Philippines | Do edaphic factors influence floristic and performance variation of trees in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Palanan, Philippines? | Palanan, Philippines | |
| King, David Alan | USA | Inferring Height Growth Histories From Leaf Scars in Palms | BCI, Panama | |
| Peay, KG; Bruns, TD | Assemblage structure, host preferences and edaphic specialization of | Lambir, Malaysia | ||
| Singhakumara, B.M.P. | Sri Lanka | Comparative physio-morphological traits of mature-phase trees in a | Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Bt Kamarul Bahrin, Nurfazliza | Malaysia | Species Diversity of Lianas in the 50-ha plot in the Lowland Dipterocarp of Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Boardman Kraft, Nathan Jared | USA | Creating a species- level leaf trait database for the Yasuni FDP | Yasuni | |
| Burnham, Robyn J. | USA | Amazonian Lianas: A Comparison of Two Terra Firme Climber Communities | Manaus, Brazil; Yasuní, Ecuador | |
| Kaspari, Mike | USA | Towards a spatial ecology of brown food webs: soil nutrients and trees as templates | Barro Colorado Island, Yasuni | |
| Lake, Jeffrey K. | USA | Variation in Leaf Functional Traits: Niche Structure, Spatial Patterns and Tree Performance in the Forest at Barro Colorado Island, Panama | BCI | |
| Mbua Ngale Efange, Simon | Cameroon | Correlation of bark phytochemicals from Annickia chlorantha with physiological and environmental variables across a forested African landscape | Korup, Cameroon | final report |
| Poussart, Pascale M.; Chave, Jerome; Devall, Margaret S. | Canada | Extracting age and growth information from tropical ringless trees using seasonally-resolved dendrochemical measurements | Peninsula Gigante (Panama), La Planada, Yasuní, French Guiana, Korup and Sinharaja | |
| Rüger, Nadja | Germany | From tree species characteristics to population and community dynamics – investigations with the individual-based forest model FORMIND | BCI, Panama | |
| Queenborough, Simon A. | UK | Reproductive strategies of Myristicaceae in Amazonian Ecuador: Factors affecting fruit production and initiation | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
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Cycle: 2005 |
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| Arnold, A. Elizabeth; Suryanarayanan, Trichur S. | USA | Multi-scale analysis of tropical microbial diversity: cryptic fungal symbionts of tropical forest trees | Mudumalai, India; Korup, Cameroon; BCI, Panama | |
| Astaras, Christos | Greece | Assessment of Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) Feeding Ecology and Food Availability in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Baltzer, Jennifer L. | Canada | The physiological basis of latitudinal gradients in species diversity: comparisons between everwet and seasonal forests in Malaysia and Thailand | Khao Chong, Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Garwood, Nancy C.; Wright, Joseph; Valencia, Renato | USA | Long-term variation in plant reproduction in an Ecuadorian rainforest | Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama | |
| Hardesty, Britta Denise | USA | Dispersal: Empirical and theoretical considerations of seed arrival, seedling recruitment, and seedling survival in a vertebrate-dispersed tree | BCI, Panama | |
| Hooper, Elaine R. | Canada | Effect of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal and forest regeneration at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in the Central Amazon | Manaus, Brasil | |
| Kenfack, David | Cameroon | Patterns of morphological and molecular diversification in Carapa (Swieteniodeae – Meliaceae) | Korup, Cameroon; Ituri, Congo; Manaus, Brazil; La Planada, Colombia; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| de Oliveira, Alexandre; Harms, Kyle E. | Brazil | Rectifying Taxonomy Between the Two Amazonian CTFS Plots | Manaus, Brasil; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Potts, Matthew D. ; Kassim, Abd. Rahman | USA | Grouping Species into Functional Types and Characterizing Species Allometric Relationships in the Pasoh Forest To Aid in the Parameterization of the FORMIND Forest Model | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Schnitzer, Stefan A. | USA | Do Edaphic Factors Determine the Abundance of Lianas in Tropical Forests? | Huai Kha Khaeng and Khao Chong, Thailand; La Planada, Colombia;BCI, Panama | |
| Turner, Benjamin L.; Bardgett, Richard D. | UK | Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Rainforests: Testing the Theory at Large Spatial Scales | BCI, Panama; Bukit, Singapore; Doi Inthanon, Khao Chong, and Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand; Korup, Cameroon; Lambir, Malaysia; Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Palanan, Philippines; Pasoh, Malaysia; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Zartman, Charles E.; Harms, Kyle E.; de Oliveira, Alexandre; Mesquita Ferreira, Antônia | USA | Creating Identification Resources for Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, and Seedlings from the Brazilian CTFS Plot | Manaus, Brazil | |
| Zimmerman, Jess K. | USA | Long-Term Variation in Plant Reproduction and Seedling Establishment in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot | Luquillo, Puerto Rico | |
| Cycle: August 2004 | ||||
| Chave, Jérôme | France | Contribution of tropical forest trees to the carbon cycle: Refining biomass estimates | Yasuni, Ecuador; La Planada, Colombia; Korup, Cameroon; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Chuyong, George; Kenfack, David; Thomas, Duncan | Cameroon | Habitat specificity and diversity in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Hooper, Elaine R. | Canada | Effect of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal and forest regeneration at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in the Central Amazon | BDFFP; Manaus, Brazil | |
| Ichie, Tomoaki | Japan | Soil-related physiological and morphological adaptation in Dipterocarp rain forest species in Borneo | Lambir, Malaysia | |
| King, David Alan | USA | Wood density and adult tree height in Malaysian forests | Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Linder, Joshua M. | USA | Differential vulnerability of primates to hunting in Korup National Park, Cameroon: Implications for primate conservation | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Lyon, Mandela | USA | Dicot leaf morphology in tropical forests: Determining the significance of climate, ecology, and evolutionary history in shaping leaves | BCI, Panama; Korup, Cameroon; Lambir, Malaysia; Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Mullins, Chris | UK | Development of a protocol to characterize soil drought stress for use in within- and among-site comparisons of the CTFS Forest Dynamics Plots | BCI, Panama | |
| Nkongolo, Nsalambi V. | Dem. Rep. of Congo | Spatial distribution of soil properties in Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo | Ituri, Dem. Rep. of Congo | |
| F. Athanasius, Nkwatoh | Cameroon | Assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products economic potentials in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Mundemba Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Pakkad, Greuk; Kanzaki, Mamoru; Sringernyuang, Kraingsak | Thailand | Genetic variation and gene flow ofCastanopsis acuminatissima(Bl.) A. DC. in Doi Inthanon National Park Forest Dynamic Plot, Thailand | Doi Inthanon, Thailand | |
| Robinson, W. Douglas | USA | Linking bird and tree communities in Central and South American forests | BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Shamsuddin, Siti Aisah; Marryanna, L.; Saiful Iskandar, K | Malaysia | Characterization of plant community in relation to fine-scale variation in topography and water availability in Pasoh 50-ha demography plot | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Villa Munoz, Gorky | Ecuador | Brownea grandiceps used to study evolutionary processes of diversification in rain forest trees | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Weber, Jean | France | Structure of ectomycorrhizal communities in a Dipterocarp forest and its relationship to Dipterocarp distribution | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Yaacob, Adzmi; Rahman Kassim, Abd.; Supardi Md. Noor, Nur | Malaysia | Spatial pattern of soil nutrient distribution in the 50-ha plot of Pasoh forest reserve | Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Cycle: February 2004 | ||||
| Aguilar, Zornitza | Ecuador | Influence of the indigenous communities on the conservation of Ungurahua palm | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Baker, Patrick | USA | Reconstructing historical disturbance regimes and forest stand dynamics in the forest mosaic of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, western Thailand | HKK, Thailand | |
| Burslem, David; Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. | UK, Sri Lanka | Ecological drivers of mast fruiting in Dipterocarps | Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Egbe, Andrew | Cameroon | Forest disturbance and natural regeneration in an African rainforest at Koru, Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Heartsill-Scalley, Tamara | USA (Puerto Rico) | Characterization of riparian zones in tropical, montane rainforest: Quantifying vegetation composition and litter input | Luquillo, Puerto Rico | |
| Jadhav, Yogesh | India | Modeling spatio-temporal populations of invasive plant species and their ecological impacts on forest sustainability and Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary (India) | Mudumalai, India | |
| Lohman, David | USA | The role of host plant specificity and spatial dynamics in the biodiversity of a tropical herbivore guild | Khao Chong, Thailand | |
| Lopez, Omar | Panama | The interaction of light and soil moisture availability in the photosynthetic performance of tropical tree seedlings: Implications for seedling growth and survival in seasonal tropical forests | BCI, Panama | |
| Nkongolo, Nsalambi | Dem. Rep. of Congo | Spatial distributions of soil properties in Ituri Forest: Impacts on canopy species and potential for nitrous oxide emissions | Ituri, Dem. Rep. of Congo | |
| Parker, Geoffrey | USA | Comparative study of tropical forest canopy structure using a ground based LIDAR | BCI, Panama; Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Yasuni, Ecuador; Manaus, Brazil; Pasoh, Malaysia; HKK and Khao Chong, Thailand | |
| Portugal, Ana | Bolivia | Effects of habitat on pteriphyte distribution in the forest dynamics plot on BCI | BCI, Panama | |
| Queenborough, Simon | UK | Reproductive behavior of Mystecaceae in Yasuni, Amazonian Ecuador | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Russo, Sabrina | USA | Is there a functional basis for edaphically associated floristic variation in a Bornean Rainforest? | Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysia | |
| Thompson, Jill | UK | Seedling dynamics in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot and parameters for a SORTIE model | Luquillo, Puerto Rico | |
| Cycle: 2003 | ||||
| Baillie, Ian | UK | An investigation of the contribution of reserve nutrients and other subsoil attributes to the edaphic environments of two climatically contrasting CTFS plots | Lambir, Malaysia; HKK, Thailand | |
| Bohlman, Stephanie | US | Structure and species composition of the forest canopy and its impact on tree growth: combining aerial photographs with Forest Dynamics Plot data | BCI, Panama | |
| Brenes, Tania | Costa Rica | Herbivore pressure, Ingachemistry, toxicity and defensive ants: Comparison of the tropical communities | Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama | |
| Davidar, Priya; Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N.; Gunatilleke, C.V.S. | India | Comparison of fruit characteristics, dispersal syndromes and seed dispersal in lowland rain forests of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka | India; Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Dick, Christopher; Austerlitz, Frederic; Bermingham, Eldredge | USA | Pollen dispersal limitation in tropical rainforests: A comparative study in BCI and Yasuni | BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Engelbrecht, Bettina; Comita, Liza | Germany | Linking seedling drought resistance with species habitat associations: Dry season mortality | BCI, Panama | |
| F. Athanasius, Nkwatoh | Cameroon | A proposal on the assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products economy potentials in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Garrett, Karen | USA | Invasibility of tropical forest by pathogens | BCI, Panama | |
| Hamann, Hillary | USA | Nutrient movement and loss by differing runoff pathways in tropical forests soil: an inter site comparison of CTFS tropical forest plots | Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama; KM41, Brazil; HKK, Thailand; Khao Chong, Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Harrison, Rhett | UK | Comparative community-wide studies of forest reproduction and pollinators in Old and New World tropical forests | BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador; Khao Chong, Thailand; Pasoh, Malaysia; Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Hiremath, Ankila | India | Soil resources in relation to species distribution and dynamics in Indian tropical dry forest | Mudumalai, India | |
| King, David | USA | Tropical tree growth in relation to neighborhood competition, crow size and illumination and irregularities in tree form | Lambir and Pasoh, Malaysia | |
| Makana, Jean- Remy | Dem. Rep. of Congo | Testing hypotheses on monospecific dominance in a tropical forest using large mapped plots data and seedling manipulation experiments in the Ituri Forest, Central Africa | Ituri, Dem. Rep. Congo | |
| Metz, Margaret Rowan | USA | Seedling dynamics in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Munoz, Gorky Villa | Ecuador | The Browneagrandicepsspecies complex used to study modes of speciation in understory rain forest trees | Yasuni, Ecuador; Venezuela | |
| Perez, Rolando; Aguilar, Salomon; Deago, Jose | Panama | Preliminary study to evaluate the arboreal species composition, abundance, and diversity in the Panamanian forests | Panama | |
| Powers, Jennifer S. | USA | A mechanistic understanding of the responses of soil carbon pools in tropical forests to increasing global temperatures | BCI, Panama; Yasuni, Ecuador; HKK, Thailand; Khao Chong, Thailand; Costa Rica | |
| Sautu, Adriana | Argentina | Tree seed dominancy in the Panama Canal Watershed proposal | Panama Watershed Canal | |
| Schnitzer, Stefan | USA | The changing role of lianas and their contribution to tropical forest complexity and biomass: A multi site comparison | Lambir and Pasoh, Malaysia; HKK and Doi Inthanon, Thailand | |
| Suresh, H.S. | India | Reconstruction of climatic and fire of a tropical dry forest through tree ring analysis: The Mundumalai Forest Dynamics Plot | Mudumalai, India | |
| Tan, Sylvester; Itoh, Akira; LaFrankie, James | Malaysia | Development of botanical identification resources for Lambir hyperdiverse 52 hectare plot | Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Thomas, Duncan | UK | Using large forest dynamics plots to test methods for location areas of high botanical interest | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Thomas, Sean | USA | Leaf optical scans for rapid, comprehensive ecophysiological surveys of tropical tree floras: Characterization and cross plot comparisons of BCI, Pasoh and Ituri | BCI, Panama; Pasoh, Malaysia; Ituri, Dem. Rep. Congo | |
| Watkins, Jason | USA | Investigation of oomycete fungi believed to be involved in Janzen-Connell effects observed on Barro Colorado Island, Panama | BCI, Panama | |
| Yoneda, Tsuyoshi; Kuwahara,Takanori | Japan | Study on carbon cycling of a mature seasonal tropical rain forest in Huai Kha Khaeng, Thailand, with special reference to spatio-temporal relationships between growth and decay systems | HKK, Thailand | |
| Zapfack, Louis; Achoundong, Gaston; Nkongmeneck, Bernard Aloys | Cameroon | Herbaceous and epiphytic flora of the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot in Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Cycle: 2002 | ||||
| Chuyong, George; Kenfack, David; Thomas, Duncan | Cameroon | Habitat specificity and diversity in the Korup Forest Dynamics Plot, Cameroon | Korup, Cameroon | |
| Hardesty, Denise | USA | Ecological and evolutionary genetics of two vertebrate-dispersed tropical trees,Symphonia globulifera | Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama | |
| John, Robert | India | Growth and survival of trees in relation to canopy closure in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot | BCI, Panama | |
| Madawala Weerasinghe, H. M. Sumedha P. | Sri Lanka | A topographic comparison of soil nutrient status in relation to habitat specialization in the 25-ha Forest Dynamics Plot at Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Moscoso, Alejandra | Ecuador | Contribution to the taxonomical knowledge of the Myrtaceae, with special reference to the genusCalyptranthes Saw., in the Yasuní Dynamics Forest Project | Yasuni, Ecuador | |
| Muller-Landau, Helene | USA | Seed rain in tropical forests: Patterns, causes, and consequences for forest dynamics | Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Yasuni, Ecuador; BCI, Panama; Lambir, Malaysia | |
| Stacy, Elizabeth | USA | Understanding the origin of tropical tree species richness: A phylogenetic analysis of ecological data from Sinharaja’s Forest Dynamics Plot | Sinharaja, Sri Lanka | |
| Vencatesan, Jayshree | India | Forest reserves as refugia for human impacted biodiversity: A case study of the Forest Dynamics Plot in Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, India | Mudumalai, India | |
| Wills, Christopher | UK | Comparing interspecific interactions between tree species in the New- and Old World tropical forests | Lambir, Malaysia; BCI, Panama | |
| Zimmerman, Jess | USA | Phenologies of tropical forests: The role of light limitation | Luquillo, Puerto Rico | |
