Global Change Biology Global Change Biology (2014), doi: 10.1111/gcb.12712 REVIEW CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA1,2, STUART J. DAVIES1,3,AMYC.BENNETT2 ,ERIKA B. GONZALEZ-AKRE2 , HELENE C. MULLER-LANDAU1 ,S.JOSEPHWRIGHT1 , KAMARIAH 4 2,5,6 7 ABU SALIM ,ANGELICA M. ALMEYDA ZAMBRANO , ALFONSO ALONSO , JENNIFER L. BALTZER8 ,YVESBASSET1 , NORMAN A. BOURG2 , EBEN N. BROADBENT2,5,6, WARREN Y. BROCKELMAN9 , SARAYUDH BUNYAVEJCHEWIN10, DAVID F. R. P. BURSLEM11, NATHALIE BUTT12,13,MINCAO14, DAIRON CARDENAS15,GEORGEB.CHUYONG16, KEITH CLAY17,SUSANCORDELL18, HANDANAKERE S. DATTARAJA19, XIAOBAO DENG14, MATTEO DETTO1 , XIAOJUN DU20, ALVARO DUQUE21, DAVID L. ERIKSON3 , CORNEILLE E.N. EWANGO22, GUNTER A. FISCHER23, CHRISTINE FLETCHER24,ROBINB. FOSTER25, CHRISTIAN P. GIARDINA18, GREGORY S. GILBERT26,1,NIMAL GUNATILLEKE27, SAVITRI GUNATILLEKE27, ZHANQING HAO28,WILLIAMW. HARGROVE29,TERESEB.HART30,BILLYC.H.HAU31, FANGLIANG HE32, FORREST M. HOFFMAN33,ROBERTW.HOWE34, STEPHEN P. HUBBELL1,35, FAITH M. INMAN- NARAHARI36, PATRICK A. JANSEN1,37, MINGXI JIANG38, DANIEL J. JOHNSON17, MAMORU KANZAKI39, ABDUL RAHMAN KASSIM24, DAVID KENFACK1,3,STALINE KIBET40,41,MARGARETF.KINNAIRD42,43,LISAKORTE7 , KAMIL KRAL44, JITENDRA KUMAR33,ANDREWJ.LARSON45,YIDELI46,XIANKUNLI47, SHIRONG LIU48,SHAWN K.Y. LUM49, JAMES A. LUTZ50,KEPINGMA20, DAMIAN M. MADDALENA33,JEAN-REMY MAKANA51,YADVINDERMALHI13, TOBY MARTHEWS13, RAFIZAH MAT SERUDIN52, 1,53 2 54 SEAN M. MCMAHON ,WILLIAMJ.MC SHEA ,HERVER. MEMIAGHE ,XIANGCHENG MI20, TAKASHI MIZUNO39,MICHAELMORECROFT55, JONATHAN A. MYERS56,VOJTECH NOVOTNY57,58, ALEXANDRE A. DE OLIVEIRA59,PERRYS.ONG60, DAVID A. ORWIG61, REBECCA OSTERTAG62, JAN DEN OUDEN63,GEOFFREYG.PARKER53,RICHARDP. PHILLIPS17, LAWREN SACK35,MOSESN.SAINGE64,WEIGUOSANG20, KRIANGSAK SRI-NGERNYUANG65,RAMANSUKUMAR19, I-FANG SUN66, WITCHAPHART SUNGPALEE65, HEBBALALU SATHYANARAYANA SURESH19,SYLVESTERTAN67,SEAN C. THOMAS68,DUNCANW.THOMAS69, JILL THOMPSON70,71,BENJAMINL.TURNER1 , MARIA URIARTE72,RENATOVALENCIA73, MARTA I. VALLEJO74, ALBERTO VICENTINI75,TOMASVRSK A 44,XIHUAWANG76, XUGAO WANG30, GEORGE WEIBLEN77, AMY WOLF78,HANXU46, SANDRA YAP60 andJESS ZIMMERMAN71 1Center for Tropical Forest Science-Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama, 2Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, USA, 3Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA, 4Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti of Brunei Darussalam, Tungku Link Road, Bandar Seri Begawan, BE 1410, Brunei Darussalam, 5Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 6Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, 7Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA, 8Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5, Canada, 9Department of Biology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 10Research Office, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Bangkok, Thailand, 11School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, 12School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia 4072, Australia, 13Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 14Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 88 Xuefu Road, Kunming 650223, China, 15Instituto Amazonico de Investigaciones Cientıficas Sinchi, Bogota, Colombia, 16Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, 17Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, 18Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI, USA, 19Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 20Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China, 21Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia, 22Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestiere (CEFRECOF) Epulu, Ituri Forest, Reserve de Faune a Okapis, Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 23Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Tai Po, Hong Kong, 24Forest © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 1 2 K. 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Research Institute Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, 25Botany Department, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA, 26Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 27Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 28State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China, 29Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA-Forest Service Station Headquarters, Asheville, NC, USA, 30Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba Project, Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Kinshasa BP 2012, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 31Kadoorie Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, 32Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 33Computational Earth Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 34Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA, 35Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 36College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, 37Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 38Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China, 39Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 40National Museums of Kenya, P.O. 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