Research on the MRTFs span characterization inventories and assessments to interdisciplinary research, long-term environmental monitoring. Information about completed and ongoing work is available:
| Ecological Studies and Experiments |
| Studies spanning ecological processes to restoration ecology |
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| Environmental & Ecological Monitoring |
| Climatological and hydrologic monitoring, and forest inventory and assessment |
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| Socio-economics and governance |
| Surveys and assessments of the socio-economics and governance mechanisms affecting resource management and conservation |
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| Data |
| Data from monitoring activities and completed studies |
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