Tropical forest carbon balance: Effects of field- and satellite-based mortality regimes on the dynamics and the spatial structure of Central Amazon forest biomass

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Di Vittorio, Alan V ^a   Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^a,b   Higuchi, Niro ^c   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; biomass; forest; mortality; power law

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AMAZON; FOREST; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; MORTALITY; POWER LAW; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; TREE GROWTH MODELING;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY GAP; CARBON BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; POWER LAW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; MORTALITY;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84897526699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034010     Document Type: Article

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