Smartforests Canada

A network of monitoring plots for forest management under environmental change.

The objectives of Smartforests are threefold:

Establish and coordinate a network of high precision monitoring plots across a 4400 km gradient of environmental and forest conditions.

Synthesize the collected multivariate observations to examine the effects of global changes on complex above- and below-ground forest dynamics and resilience.

Analyse the collected data to guide the development of the next generation forest growth models and inform policy makers on best forest management and adaptation strategies