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Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees
Feldpausch, Ted R.; Banin, Lindsay F.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Baker, Timothy R.; Lewis, Simon L.; Quesada, Carlos Alberto; Affum-Baffoe, KofiTropical tree height-diameter (<i>H:D</i>) relationships may vary by forest type and region making large-scale estimates of above-ground biomass subject to bias if they ignore these differences in stem allometry. We have therefore developed a new global tropical forest database consisting of 39 955 concurrent <i>H</i> and <i>D</i> measurements encompassing 283 sites in 22 tropical countries. Utilising this data...
Structural dynamics of tropical moist forest gaps
Hunter, Maria O.; Keller, Michael; Morton, Douglas C.; Cook, Bruce Douglas; Lefsky, Michael Andrew; Ducey, Mark J.; Saleska, Scott ReidGap phase dynamics are the dominant mode of forest turnover in tropical forests. However, gap processes are infrequently studied at the landscape scale. Airborne lidar data offer detailed information on three-dimensional forest structure, providing a means to characterize fine-scale (1 m) processes in tropical forests over large areas. Lidar-based estimates of forest structure (top down) differ from traditional...