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30 Mar 2020
Research article |
| 30 Mar 2020
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An analysis of forest biomass sampling strategies across scales
Jessica Hetzer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Andreas Huth
Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück,
49076 Osnabrück, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv),
Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Thorsten Wiegand
Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv),
Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Hans Jürgen Dobner
HTWK Leipzig – University of Applied Sciences, 04277 Leipzig, Germany
Rico Fischer
Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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Due to limited accessibility in tropical regions, only small parts of the forest landscape can be surveyed in forest plots. Since there is an ongoing debate about how representative estimations based on samples are at larger scales, this study analyzes how many plots are needed to quantify the biomass of the entire South American tropical forest. Through novel computational and statistical investigations we show that the spatial plot positioning is crucial for continent-wide biomass estimations.
Due to limited accessibility in tropical regions, only small parts of the forest landscape can...
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