Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: New allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1853-1867

  Nogueira, Euler Melo ^a   Fearnside, Philip Martin ^a   Nelson, Bruce Walker ^a   Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio ^a   Keizer, Edwin Willem Hermanus ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometric relationships; Amazon forest; Biomass stock; Brazil; Carbon; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CURING; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAND USE; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WOOD;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; AMAZON FOREST; AMAZONIA; AMAZONIAN FORESTS; BIOMASS EQUATIONS; BIOMASS MAPS; BIOMASS MODELS; BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN AMAZONS; CARBON STORAGES; DRY BIOMASSES; DRY WEIGHTS; FERTILE SOILS; FOREST BIOMASSES; FOREST TYPES; FORESTED AREAS; FORM FACTORS; INVENTORY DATUM; LARGE-SCALE; OPEN FORESTS; SMALL TREES; TOTAL BIOMASSES; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION CLASSES; WOOD DENSITIES; WOOD VOLUMES;

BIOMASS;

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; WOOD;

AGGLOMERATION; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CROWNS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GASES; INVENTORIES; INVENTORY CONTROL; WOOD;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54249135760     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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