Araucaria Forests of Southern Brazil - Brazil

This research site develops long-term ecological studies in experimental units located in public and private areas throughout the Rio Iguaçu Basin, Paraná State, southern Brazil. The site exists since 1999 and research areas are continuous and uninterrupted monitored since then. The main research focus is the generation of ecological knowledge about the process of regeneration and growth of the forest related to demographic processes and environmental changes and in response to human disturbance impacts.