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Exploring coarse- to fine-scale approaches for mapping and estimating forest vo...
David, Hassan C.; MacFarlane, David W.; Netto, Sylvio Pellico; Dalla Corte, Ana Paula; Piotto, Daniel; Oliveira, Yeda M. M. de; Morais, Vinicius A.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T19:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-10-01; The aim of this study was to explore methods to: (1) enhance coarse-scale estimates of wood volume from National Forest Inventories (NFIs) data and (2) map them at finer scales. The 'standard' coarse-scale estimation extrapolates wood volume from clusters to the grid cell they represent, using the clust...
Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests
Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.; Bongers, Frans; Aide, T. Mitchell; Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Ascarrunz, Nataly L.; Balvanera, Patricia; Becknell, Justin M.Old-growth tropical forests harbor an immense diversity of tree species but are rapidly being cleared, while secondary forests that regrow on abandoned agricultural lands increase in extent. We assess how tree species richness and composition recover during secondary succession across gradients in environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbance in an unprecedented multisite analysis for the Neotropics. S...
Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeogr...
Steidinger, Brian S.; Crowther, Thomas Ward; Liang, Jingjing; van Nuland, Michael E.; Werner, Gijsbert; Reich, Peter B.; Nabuurs, Gert JanIn this Letter, the middle initial of author G. J. Nabuurs was omitted, and he should have been associated with an additional affiliation: ‘Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands’ (now added as affiliation 182). In addition, the following two statements have been added to the Supplementary Acknowledgements. (1): ‘We would particularly like to ...
Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Lati...
Chazdon, Robin L.; Broadbent, Eben N.; Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.; Bongers, Frans; Zambrano, Angélica María Almeyda; Aide, T. Mitchell; Balvanera, PatriciaRegrowth of tropical secondary forests following complete or nearly complete removal of forest vegetation actively stores carbon in aboveground biomass, partially counterbalancing carbon emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, burning of fossil fuels, and other anthropogenic sources. We estimate the age and spatial extent of lowland second-growth forests in the Latin American tropics and model their p...
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Liang, Jingjing; Crowther, Thomas W; Picard, Nicolas; Wiser, Susan; Zhou, Mo; Alberti, Giorgio; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef; McGuire, A David; Bozzato, FabioThe biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR is critical for the accurate valuation and effective conservation of biodiversity. Using ground-sourced data from 777,126 permanent plots, spanning 44 countries and most terrestrial biomes, we reveal a globally consistent positive conca...