1. Under the Core-to-Core Program sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-C2C), core institutions that hold or manage university forests and research sites in Asia have been collaborating closely to network field stations for long-term, stable and continuous forest monitoring, and to create new scientific knowledge on environmental changes and ecosystem responses.

2. Among three research groups (RGs) of the JSPS-C2C, RG3 (Sustainable Management) deals with anthropogenic interventions in Asian forests, long-term geospatial and management data, and ecosystem services associated with social, economic and cultural values.

3. The RG3 continuously updates a list of major long-term experimental plots across core universities and has organized five international meetings since 2016 to exchange recent research findings and to discuss potential research topics for collaboration.

4. Our group made a significant contribution to a book publication of the JSPS-C2C and the Journal special feature in the field of forest growth and mensuration based on long-term plot measurement and remote sensing data.

5. Although our collaborative research activities mainly related to the experimental plots of old Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) plantations, we also explore further research cooperation targeting various forest types and plantation species.