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Improving simulated Amazon forest biomass and productivity by including spatial variation in biophysical parameters
A. D. A. Castanho
The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Rd., Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
M. T. Coe
The Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Rd., Falmouth, MA 02540, USA
M. H. Costa
Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Y. Malhi
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
D. Galbraith
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
C. A. Quesada
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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