ABC Expeditions
A project funded by the Research Council of Norway
and led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Our objective:
The ABC expeditions combine vegetation inventories and multi-taxa wildlife surveys to assess biodiversity and carbon stocks in undersampled regions across the Brazilian Amazon.
Comprehensive field surveys
Our ABC expeditions will enable us to:
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Provide distribution data for multiple plant and animal taxa in remote undisturbed forests.
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Assess the biogeography of biodiversity patterns across Amazonian interfluvial regions.
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Compare the effectiveness of traditional and modern survey techniques.
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Demonstrate the value of comprehensive and standardised rapid biodiversity assessments.
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Improve estimates of aboveground biomass and carbon stocks across Amazonian-wide climatic gradients.
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Assess how aboveground biomass and carbon stocks relate to patterns of biodiversity in remote undisturbed forests.
Cutting-edge analyses
Surveying areas previously covered by the RadamBrasil project conducted by the Brazilian government in the 1970s, we will also be able to:
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Compare our carbon stock estimates to those from 50 years ago.
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Use network analyses to model the potential impacts of overhunting on carbon stocks.
