Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9899-9904

  Saatchi, Sassan S ^a,b   Harris, Nancy L ^c   Brown, Sandra ^c   Lefsky, Michael ^d   Mitchard, Edward T A ^e   Salas, William ^f   Zutta, Brian R ^a,b   Buermann, Wolfgang ^b   Lewis, Simon L ^g   Hagen, Stephen ^f   Petrova, Silvia ^c   White, Lee ^h   Silman, Miles ⁱ   Morel, Alexandra ^j  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WINROCK INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f Applied GeoSolutions   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux   (Gabon)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Error propagation; Forest biomass; Forest height; Microwave and optical imaging

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BENCHMARK MAP; BIOMASS; CARBON STORAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; UNCERTAINTY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; LATIN AMERICA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79959363987     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019576108     Document Type: Article

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