BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems

BIOCLIMATE will break new ground in five ways: [i] building the biggest temporal database on Amazonian vegetation and carbon responses to local and climate-related stressors; [ii] assembling a huge amount of new information on species-specific contributions to ecosystem processes crucial to understanding climate resilience and post-disturbance forest recovery; [iii] the adoption of both next-generation (i.e. environmental DNA, ingested DNA, bioacoustics) and well-established techniques (i.e. camera traps and vegetation census) to monitor tropical forest fauna at broad temporal scales, and produce detailed species interaction networks; [iv] the timely opportunity to adopt multiple communication strategies for public engagement in forest recovery, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation; and [v] the translation of scientific knowledge into conservation planning to define specific climate-smart management strategies in a region where researchers already collaborate with stakeholders and forest managers. BIOCLIMATE is funded by BNP Paribas Foundation (Climate & Biodiversity Initiative; time span: Mar/2020 to Dec/2022).