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Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to c...
Levine, Naomi Marcil; Zhang, Ke; Longo, Marcos; Baccini, Alessandro; Phillips, Oliver L.; Lewis, Simon L.; Alvarez, EstebanAmazon forests, which store ∼50% of tropical forest carbon and play a vital role in global water, energy, and carbon cycling, are predicted to experience both longer and more intense dry seasons by the end of the 21st century. However, the climate sensitivity of this ecosystem remains uncertain: several studies have predicted large-scale dieback of the Amazon, whereas several more recent studies predict that th...
Estimating aboveground biomass in tropical forests: Field methods and error ana...
Gonçalves, Fábio Guimarães; Treuhaft, Robert N.; Law, Beverly; Almeida, André Quintão; Walker, Wayne S.; Baccini, Alessandro; Santos, João Roberto dosMapping and monitoring of forest carbon stocks across large areas in the tropics will necessarily rely on remote sensing approaches, which in turn depend on field estimates of biomass for calibration and validation purposes. Here, we used field plot data collected in a tropical moist forest in the central Amazon to gain a better understanding of the uncertainty associated with plot-level biomass estimates obtai...