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Project for the Advancement of Networked Science inAmazoniaPARAMA
SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
PRIORITY THEMATIC AREA“SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS”
GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS SUB-PRIORITY
Project Duration: Dec 19th 2003-Dec 18th 2006
Total Budget: 400,000 euros
website:http://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr/panamazonia/PANAMAZONIA.htmlhttp://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr/panamazonia/PANAMAZONIA.html
AimTo build and strengthen European co-operation with Latin
American partners to allow the development of a critical mass of human capacity and techniques for monitoring and understanding the Amazon ecosystem’s role in climate change and maintenance
of biodiversity, and the effects of global change on the Amazon forest ecosystem.
Directly Funded Partners
• University of Edinburgh, UK• University of Leeds, UK• Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands• CNRS, Toulouse, France• ALTERRA, Wageningen, the Netherlands• National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Utrecht,
Netherlands• Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany• National Amazon Research Institute (INPA), Manaus, Brazil• Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil• Museo Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Training Workshops
32%
Project Administrator
10%
Toulouse Kick-off Meeting
4%
Information Manager
5%
Overheads17%
Contingency3%
Six Research Fellowships
27%
Manuals2%
The PARAMA 400,000 euros
•Kick-off meeting: Brasilia July 2004
•3 Field workshops to be held in Brazil, August 1-10th 2004
•3 Analysis workshops to be held in Bolivia, 2006
•8 basic field manuals
•9 research (MSc level) fellowships
Workshop 1: Assessment and Monitoring of Forest Structureand Function· Forest structure, by measuring tree and liana diameters tree height, wood density, standbiomass, stand coarse woody debris, liana infestation.· Stand-level dynamics, by systematic recording rates of tree and liana growth, mortality andmodes of mortality.· Landscape-level dynamics, by assessing and mapping disturbances with aid of remote sensing.
Workshop 2: Assessment and Monitoring of Forest TreeDiversity· Standardised field plot-based techniques for forest diversity assessment (composition, diversityof functional traits) and long-term diversity monitoring.· Practical and analytical protocols for analysing spatial diversity patterns, and mechanisms andfactors that affect diversity, and monitoring diversity (species and species functional groups).
Workshop 3: Field Course on Ecophysiological ProcessUnderstanding· Leaf and soil nutritional and physical properties· Chamber techniques· Hydrology· Towers, weather stations and micrometeorology
2004 field workshops
Workshop applications 2004
8 participants to be funded per workshop, capacity up to 15
Biometry Diversity Ecophysiology TotalBolivia 3 1 4Brazil 19 3 20 42
Colombia 4 3 4 11Ecuador 1 2 3Guyana 2 2
Peru 13 8 7 28Portugal 1 1
Venezuela 3 3 6 Total 45 16 36 97
Manuals
Eight field methodology manuals in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French. •Plot-based forest structure inventory & monitoring; •Plot-based forest dynamics inventory & monitoring; •Plot-based biodiversity inventory & monitoring; •Digital herbaria standards; •Eddy covariance & related meteorological variables; •Litterfall & seasonal growth dynamics; •Soil moisture, sap-flow & plant water status; •Soil & plant gas exchange measurements.
•Manuals will be written by the key European participants in association with their South American colleagues.
Research Fellowships
At least eight research fellowships of two years for South American students, aimed specifically at research focussed on cross-Amazonian comparisons.
Fellowhips should fund all or part of MSc studies, or fund additional cost to an already existing MSc or PhD research project.
Fellowships will be based in South American institutions, but will be co-supervised by European scientists.
Fellowship applications May 2004
8 to be funded
Topic not clear Biometry Diversity Ecophysioloy TotalBrazil 1 3 12 16
Colombia 3 2 2 3 10Ecuador 1 1
Peru 4 1 2 1 8Venezuela 1 1 2
Total 8 5 8 16 37
Conclusions:
•PARAMA is all about training and capacity building
•The involvement of South Americans in coordination and teaching is high
•Still some uncertainties on procedures and affiliations but the project has made a good start
•CNPq approval pending
•We ask for the support of the LBA SSC
General 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 & soil instrumentation) to allow an improved understanding of the spatial and temporal variability of Amazon forest ecosystems.
General Objectives (continued)
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.
WP 4Integration
leaderMPI-BGC
WP 3Processleader
ALTERRA
WP 2Biodiversity
leaderNHN-U
WP 1Structure/Dynamics
leaderULEEDS
VUA
CNRSTOUL
MPEG
INPAJBM
MHNK
OTHER SOUTHAMERICAN INSTITUTES(Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,
Ecuador, Fr Guiana, Guyana,Peru, Suriname, Venezuela)
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DatabaseEmail newsletters
PAN-AMAZONIA
Project AdministrationUEDIN
Information ManagementULEEDS
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communityPolicy
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