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Global Canopy Programme
International study of canopies. News, research objectives, statement of principles, canopy research sites, message forum, and links.

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.

Tropical Rainforests: The Canopy
Overview, history of access methods, photographs, trees, ephiphytes, vines and lianas, and animals.

RainforestEducation.com: Rainforest Trees and the Canopy
Introduction to the rainforest canopy, including plants and animals, with photographs.

Smithsonian Magazine: Uncovering the Secrets of Forest Canopies
Methods used by scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to study the forest canopy.

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.

Heroes of the High Frontier
Companion to the National Geographic documentary. Photo gallery of plant life, animal species accounts, profiles of researchers, conservation, access methods, climbing tools and techniques, and filming.

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.






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