Forest aboveground biomass estimates in a tropical rainforest in Madagascar: new insights from the use of wood specific gravity data

Journal of Forestry Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-55

  Ramananantoandro, Tahiana ^a,b   Rafidimanantsoa, Herimanitra P ^a   Ramanakoto, Miora F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^b Ecole Supérieure du Bois   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass estimates; Carbon stocks; Data quality; Madagascar; REDD+; Wood specific gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925538826     PISSN: 1007662X     EISSN: 19930607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11676-015-0029-9     Document Type: Article

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