Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar

Scaranello, Marcos A. S.; Keller, Michael; Longo, Marcos; dos-Santos, Maiza N.; Leitold, Veronika; Morton, Douglas C.; Pinagé, Ekena R.; Espírito-Santo, Fernando Del Bon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3457-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3457-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3457-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

Research article

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13 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 13 Sep 2019

Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar

Marcos A. S. Scaranello, Michael Keller, Marcos Longo, Maiza N. dos-Santos, Veronika Leitold, Douglas C. Morton, Ekena R. Pinagé, and Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Anonymous Reviewer 1', Marcos Scaranello, 04 Jul 2019
SC1: 'well written, detailed, technical', Michael W. I. Schmidt, 15 May 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Michael W. I. Schmidt, Alice Gargano and Marc Grob', Marcos Scaranello, 04 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Reviewer 2', Marcos Scaranello, 04 Jul 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Jul 2019) by Edzo Veldkamp

AR by Marcos Scaranello on behalf of the Authors (31 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Aug 2019) by Edzo Veldkamp

AR by Marcos Scaranello on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2019)

Short summary

The coarse dead wood component of the tropical forest carbon pool is rarely measured. For the first time, we developed models for predicting coarse dead wood in Amazonian forests by using airborne laser scanning data. Our models produced site-based estimates similar to independent field estimates found in the literature. Our study provides an approach for estimating coarse dead wood pools from remotely sensed data and mapping those pools over large scales in intact and degraded forests.