Project

COFOREC Consolidating a long-term monitoring network in a human modified landscape in Northern Ecuador.

Code

13C05618

Duration

01 January 2018 → 31 December 2019

Funding

Federal funding: VLIR-UOS

Promotor

Hans Verbeeck

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Terrestrial ecology
- Environmental monitoring
Agricultural and food sciences
- Forest protection
- Forestry management and modelling

Keywords

forest monitoring network Northern Ecuador

Project description

Our goal is to consolidate a forest plot network as sites for long-term ecological research to investigate diversity and ecosystem functioning in natural and reforested areas along a large environmental gradient in a highly diverse strongly anthropogenic tropical landscape. The project takes place in the north-western slopes of the Andes of Ecuador, in an area that includes the Andes Chocó Biosphere Reserve, along an elevation gradient that ranges from 300 to 3000 m above sea level.