PAN-AMAZONIA - Project for the Advancement of Networked Science in Amazonia
PAN-AMAZONIA encompasses three integrated scientific networks designed to meld together currently disparate research efforts across the Amazon Basin in terms of global change and tropical forest ecosystem function. Specifically addressing current European Union carbon cycle and biodiversity priorities, PAN-AMAZONIA will form and strengthen transnational networks covering forest diversity and dynamics, tree biodiversity and whole ecosystem physiology and carbon dynamics, involving around 70 researchers from ten Latin American countries linked together with the overall aim of advancing our long term understanding of Amazonian forest structure and function in the face of global change.
Pan-Amazonia Objectives:
1. Construct three vibrant and well-integrated Networks across the Amazon Basin and Europe for understanding and monitoring:
1.1 forest structure and dynamics,
1.2 tree biodiversity,
1.3 whole ecosystem physiology and carbon dynamics.
2. Harmonise standards for measurement of the above across the Amazon Basin and into the future.
3. Integrate a critical mass of physical resources (data, plots, herbaria, microclimate and soil instrumentation) to allow an improved understanding of the spatial and temporal variability of Amazon forest ecosystems.
4. Train researchers from Amazonian countries in state-of the-art techniques for monitoring biodiversity, carbon dynamics and ecosystem function, using the expertise of European scientists and specialists found in one Amazonian country but not in others.
5. Integrate the three Networks into a single meta-network of European and Amazonian researchers focussed on monitoring Amazonian biodiversity, carbon dynamics and ecosystem function in the face of global change.
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