Environment: Conservation from the Treetops: The Emerging Science of Canopy Ecology - Article by H. Bruce Rinker explaining why the research is important, findings, and a list of forest canopy walkways and platforms.
Big Canopy Database - Research projects and sites, analytical tools and resources, meetings, newsletters, publications, image gallery, canopy access and safety, and training programs.
RainforestEducation.com: Rainforest Trees and the Canopy - Introduction to the rainforest canopy, including plants and animals, with photographs.
Canopy-climbing Students Learn Neotropical Biology from the Top Down at Cornell - Report of a field course in Costa Rica.
Spherical Dome Helps Kentucky Researchers Study Forest Canopy - Artificial forest canopy is expected to make light measurements more accurate.
International Canopy Network - Non-profit organization facilitating interaction between people concerned with forest canopies and forest ecosystems. Researchers, citation database, educational programs, meetings, and canopy access locations, techniques, and safety.
Center for Canopy Ecology - Focuses on research and education involving tropical rain forest canopies. News and conferences, articles and publications with online ordering, projects, history including conference abstracts, list of locations with canopy access, and resources.
Formal Ontologies, Specifications and Logics in Canopy Research - Abstract and full document by Bohdan Durnota.
Tropical Rainforests: The Canopy - Overview, history of access methods, photographs, trees, ephiphytes, vines and lianas, and animals.
Smithsonian Magazine: Uncovering the Secrets of Forest Canopies - Methods used by scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to study the forest canopy.
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