Tropical Rainforest Plot Network

Brief description

The Tropical Rainforest Plot Network was established to monitor growth, mortality and recruitment of commercially-important cabinet timber species across soil fertility, altitude, latitude and rainfall gradients. With the inscription of the Wet Tropics of Queensland on to the World Heritage list in 1988 and the consequent cessation of commercial logging, the plots have been maintained to further our understanding of rainforest community dynamics under natural disturbance systems. Growth rates, species turn-over, patterns of mortality and recruitment, impacts of cyclones, disease and invasive weeds and recovery from such disturbance supports ongoing monitoring of World Heritage values
and their management.