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.