Rapid simultaneous estimation of aboveground biomass and tree diversity across neotropical forests: A comparison of field inventory methods

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 288-298

  Baraloto, Christopher ^a,b   Molto, Quentin ^c,d   Rabaud, Suzanne ^a,e   Hérault, Bruno ^d   Valencia, Renato ^f   Blanc, Lilian ^c   Fine, Paul V A ^g   Thompson, Jill ^h,i  

^a Campus Agronomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

ⁱ CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; carbon stocks; Monitoring; Permanent plot; Survey; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FIELD METHOD; FLORISTICS; FOREST INVENTORY; MONITORING; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PRECISION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877149959     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12006     Document Type: Article

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