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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6827-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6827-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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08 Dec 2014
Research article |
| 08 Dec 2014
Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks
M. Réjou-Méchain
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174 CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
H. C. Muller-Landau
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092 Balboa, Ancon, Panama
M. Detto
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092 Balboa, Ancon, Panama
S. C. Thomas
University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, Toronto, Canada
T. Le Toan
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, UMR5126 CNRS, CNES, Université Paul Sabatier, IRD, 31401 Toulouse, France
S. S. Saatchi
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
J. S. Barreto-Silva
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Avenida Vásquez Cobo entre calles 15 y 16, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
N. A. Bourg
Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute National Zoological Park 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
S. Bunyavejchewin
National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Research Office, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
N. Butt
ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Australia
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
W. Y. Brockelman
Ecology Lab, Bioresources Technology Unit, 113 Science Park, Paholyothin Road, Khlong 1, Khlongluang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
M. Cao
Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
D. Cárdenas
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Calle 20 No. 5 -44. Bogotá, Colombia
J.-M. Chiang
Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan
G. B. Chuyong
Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Buea, PO Box 63, Buea, Cameroon
K. Clay
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
R. Condit
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092 Balboa, Ancon, Panama
H. S. Dattaraja
Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
S. J. Davies
Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20012, USA
A. Duque
Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín. Calle 59A No 63-20, Medellín, Colombia
S. Esufali
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
C. Ewango
Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestière (CEFRECOF), Wildlife Conservation Society, Kinshasa, DR Congo
R. H. S. Fernando
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
C. D. Fletcher
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia
I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Z. Hao
State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
K. E. Harms
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
T. B. Hart
Project TL2, Kinshasa, DR Congo
B. Hérault
Cirad, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane (EcoFoG), Campus Agronomique, BP701, 97310 Kourou, French Guiana
R. W. Howe
Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA
S. P. Hubbell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092 Balboa, Ancon, Panama
D. J. Johnson
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
D. Kenfack
CTFS-Arnold Arboretum Office, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
A. J. Larson
Department of Forest Management, College of Forestry and Conservation, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
L. Lin
Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
Y. Lin
Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan
J. A. Lutz
Wildland Resources Department, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5230, USA
J.-R. Makana
Wildlife Conservation Society – DRC Program, Kinshasa, DR Congo
Y. Malhi
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
T. R. Marthews
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
R. W. McEwan
Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-2320, USA
S. M. McMahon
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute {&} Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA
W. J. McShea
Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute National Zoological Park 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
R. Muscarella
Department of Ecology, Evolution {&} Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
A. Nathalang
Ecology Lab, Bioresources Technology Unit, 113 Science Park, Paholyothin Road, Khlong 1, Khlongluang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
N. S. M. Noor
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia
C. J. Nytch
Department of Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico, Box 70377, Rio Piedras, San Juan, 00936-8377, Puerto Rico
A. A. Oliveira
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, 04582050 São Paulo, Brazil
R. P. Phillips
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
N. Pongpattananurak
Department of Conservation, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
R. Punchi-Manage
Department of Ecosystem Modelling, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
R. Salim
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia
J. Schurman
University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, Toronto, Canada
R. Sukumar
Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
H. S. Suresh
Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
U. Suwanvecho
Ecology Lab, Bioresources Technology Unit, 113 Science Park, Paholyothin Road, Khlong 1, Khlongluang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
D. W. Thomas
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
J. Thompson
Department of Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico, Box 70377, Rio Piedras, San Juan, 00936-8377, Puerto Rico
Centre for Ecology {&} Hydrology, Edinburgh, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland EH26 0QB, UK
M. Uríarte
Department of Ecology, Evolution {&} Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
R. Valencia
Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
A. Vicentini
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – Manaus, AM, Brazil
A. T. Wolf
Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA
S. Yap
Institute of Biology University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
Z. Yuan
State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
C. E. Zartman
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – Manaus, AM, Brazil
J. K. Zimmerman
Department of Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico, Box 70377, Rio Piedras, San Juan, 00936-8377, Puerto Rico
J. Chave
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174 CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France
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Forest carbon mapping may greatly reduce uncertainties in the global carbon budget. Accuracy of such maps depends however on the quality of field measurements. Using 30 large forest plots, we found large local spatial variability in biomass. When field calibration plots are smaller than the remote sensing pixels, this high local spatial variability results in an underestimation of the variance in biomass.
Forest carbon mapping may greatly reduce uncertainties in the global carbon budget. Accuracy of...
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