Bridge: plots of old-growth forest to gather information on tree diversity and to test ecological theories in French Guiana since 2007.

The project Bridging Information on Tree Diversity in French Guiana, and a Test of Ecological Theories (BRIDGE) brings together researchers from nine different European research groups in tropical ecology, and seeks to improve our knowledge on the various dimensions of tree biological diversity in French Guiana. The project includes ten one-hectare old-growth forest tree plots across a range of geology and rainfall in French Guiana. The amount of niche conservatism across an ecologically relevant set of functional, reproductive, and defense traits have been measured in the field.

Date (Creation): 2007-01-01

Date (Revision): 2008-01-01

Identifier: CEBA_Bridge

Credit: Baraloto, Chris

Credit: Marcon, Eric

Credit: Blanc, Lilian

Credit: Guitet, Stéphane

Credit: Vincent, Grégoire

Credit: de Granville, Jean-Jacques

Credit: Riéra, Bernard

Credit: Bongers, Frans

Status: On going

Point of contact

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) - Chave, Jérôme

Point of contact

Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) - Baraloto, Christopher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 INSPIRE themes

Environmental monitoring facilities

Geounits

Americas
South America
France
French Guiana

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

biodiversity
tropical forest ecosystem
tropical forest
forest ecosystem
natural forest
primary forest
forest ecology
genetic diversity
ecological niche
taxonomy

Keywords

local coverage
labex CEBA
project BRIDGE
portail Ca-SIF

Theme

sampling plots
forest structure
tropical forest types
forest composition
permanent plots
functional traits
reproductive traits
defense traits
tropical trees
traits
genomic

Place

Acarouany (Javouhey)
Bafog
Montagne Tortue
Nouragues
Paracou
Saut Lavilette
Reserve naturelle Trésor

Use limitation: Please get in touch with a point of contact.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Agreement between potential user and point of contact.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 5000

Metadata language: fre

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2007-01-01

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9

Distribution format

Shapefile ( 10.1 )

OnLine resource: BRIDGE-UMR EcoFoG website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

OnLine resource: ceba_bridge_site_points.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Shapefile BRIDGE site points

OnLine resource: ceba_bridge_site_points.kmz ( GLG:KML-2.0-http-get-map )
Google Earth BRIDGE site points

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: 1. Some of the point locations of the BRIDGE shapefile (Paracou 18, Nouragues 11L, Nouragues 20HL) are not within the corresponding polygones of the GUYAFOR layer?