A question of scale: modeling biomass, gain and mortality distributions of a tropical forest

Knapp, Nikolai; Attinger, Sabine; Huth, Andreas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4929-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4929-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4929-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 20

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25 Oct 2022

Research article |

| 25 Oct 2022

A question of scale: modeling biomass, gain and mortality distributions of a tropical forest

Nikolai Knapp, Sabine Attinger, and Andreas Huth

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Complete data from the Barro Colorado 50-ha plot: 423617 trees, 35 years R. Condit, R. Pérez, S. Aguilar, S. Lao, R. Foster, and S. Hubbell https://doi.org/10.15146/5xcp-0d46

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The biomass of forests is determined by forest growth and mortality. These quantities can be estimated with different methods such as inventories, remote sensing and modeling. These methods are usually being applied at different spatial scales. The scales influence the obtained frequency distributions of biomass, growth and mortality. This study suggests how to transfer between scales, when using forest models of different complexity for a tropical forest.