Source

Type

Peer Review

Audience

Notes

The Global Canopy Programme is an alliance of 37 scientific institutions in 19 countries, which lead the world in forest canopy research, education and conservation.

The GCP is helping to plug major gaps in knowledge. The structure, function and resilience of the world’s forest canopy environment are unknown. Almost half of all terrestrial life forms could exist in forest canopies, but only a small fraction has been documented. The influence of forest canopies on climate change, their role in maintaining the earth’s biological diversity, and the other vital ecosystem services they provide to humanity at local to global scales is still little understood.