Changes in growth of tropical forests: Evaluating potential biases

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 576-587

  Phillips, O L ^a   Malhi, Y ^b   Vinceti, B ^b   Baker, T ^a   Lewis, S L ^a,b   Higuchi, N ^c   Laurance, W F ^c,d   Nunez Vargas P ^e   Vasquez Martinez R ^f   Laurance, S ^c   Ferreira, L V ^c   Stern, M ^g   Brown, S ^h   Grace, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^f Proyecto Flora del Peru   (Peru)

^g NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^h WINROCK INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon rain forest; Basal area; Bias; Buttresses; Carbon sink; Changing dynamics; Climate change; Evaluating; Forest plot data; Forest plot based estimates of biomass; Global; Neotropics; Tree growth; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0242633231     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0576:CIGOTF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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