Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1673-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1673-2020
Research article
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30 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2020

An analysis of forest biomass sampling strategies across scales

Jessica Hetzer, Andreas Huth, Thorsten Wiegand, Hans Jürgen Dobner, and Rico Fischer

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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.
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