Manaus Forest Dynamics Plot

The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, the Center for Tropical Forest Science, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Louisiana State University, and Universidad de Sao Paulo have initiated the establishment of a large-scale research plot in central Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Topography shows an elevation range of 46 m. This plot is expected to be one of the most diverse in the CTFS network, comparable to the one in Yasuni, Ecuador, despite its location near the low end of the spectrum of soil fertility across the Amazon Basin.

森林碎片生物动力学项目（Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project）、巴西国家亚马逊研究所（Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia）、热带森林科学中心（Center for Tropical Forest Science，简称CTFS）、史密森尼热带研究所、路易斯安那州立大学与圣保罗大学（Universidad de Sao Paulo）已在巴西马瑙斯附近的亚马逊中部区域启动大型研究样地的建设工程。该样地的地形海拔跨度达46米。尽管其所处位置的土壤肥力在亚马逊盆地整体梯度中处于偏低区间，但该样地的物种多样性预计将跻身CTFS网络中最为丰富的样地之列，可与厄瓜多尔亚苏尼（Yasuni）的研究样地相媲美。