The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1107-1138

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a,b   Wood, Daniel ^a   Baker, Timothy R ^c   Wright, James ^d   Phillips, Oliver L ^c   Cochrane, Thomas ^e   Meir, Patrick ^b   Chave, Jerome ^f   Almeida, Samuel ^g   Arroyo, Luzmilla ^h   Higuchi, Niro ⁱ   Killeen, Timothy J ^j   Laurance, Susan G ^k   Laurance, William F ^k   Lewis, Simon L ^c   Monteagudo, Abel ^l,m   Neill, David A ⁿ   Vargas, Percy Núñez ^o   Pitman, Nigel C A ^p   Quesada, Carlos Alberto ^c   Salomão, Rafael ^g   Silva, José Natalino M ^q,r   Lezama, Armando Torres ^s   Terborgh, John ^p   Martínez, Rodolfo Vásquez ^m   Vinceti, Barbara ^s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e AGTECA SA   (Bolivia)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^h Museo Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^j Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^k SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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

^m Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa HOXA de la estación Biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missouri   (Peru)

ⁿ Fundacion Jatun Sacha   (Ecuador)

^o DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p CIFOR ^*  (Brazil)

^q EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^r FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^s International Plant Genetic Resources Institute Maccarese   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biomass; Carbon; Soil fertility; Tropical forests; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; RAINFOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745289033     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01120.x     Document Type: Article

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