Site-specific versus pantropical allometric equations: Which option to estimate the biomass of a moist central African forest?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 312, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Ngomanda, Alfred ^a   Engone Obiang, Nestor Laurier ^a   Lebamba, Judicaël ^b   Moundounga Mavouroulou, Quentin ^a,b   Gomat, Hugues ^a   Mankou, Géraud Sidoine ^c   Loumeto, Joël ^c   Midoko Iponga, Donald ^a   Kossi Ditsouga, Franck ^a,b   Zinga Koumba, Roland ^a   Botsika Bobé, Karl Henga ^a   Mikala Okouyi, Clency ^a   Nyangadouma, Raoul ^a   Lépengué, Nicaise ^b   Mbatchi, Bertrand ^b   Picard, Nicolas ^a,d  

^a IRET ^*  (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES DE MASUKU   (Gabon)

^c Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale Faculté des Sciences de la Santé University Marien Ngouabi   (Congo)

^d CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Aboveground woody biomass; Carbon stock; Congo basin; Gabon; Pantropical equation; Plant allometry

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-GROUND WOODY BIOMASS; CARBON STOCKS; CONGO BASINS; GABON; PANTROPICAL EQUATION; PLANT ALLOMETRY;

BIOLOGY; BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CONGO; FORESTRY; WOOD;

GABON;

EID: 84888128135     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.029     Document Type: Article

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