Site: Rabi
Country: Gabon
Site PI: Dr. Alfonso Alonso, Hervé Memiaghe, Dr. Pulchérie Bissiengou
Data Type:
Availabilty: Approve
About Data: The National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CENAREST) in Gabon and the Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability (CCES) of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in partnership with the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute seek to promote long-term scientific research towards the conservation of biological diversity in Gabon. These institutions oversee and support the continued monitoring of a 25-ha Forest Monitoring Plot in Rabi, Southwestern Gabon.
Our goal is to make the Rabi 25-hectare Forest Monitoring Plot data available to researchers and students that can utilize these data to address a wide range of scientific and management questions. However, maintaining the Rabi plot requires enormous field effort and an ongoing financial commitment by several parties. We therefore require that the Principal Investigators of the Rabi Plot be considered as collaborators on any project making use of the data and be included as co-authors on any articles or presentations, unless they explicitly state otherwise.