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A question of scale: modeling biomass, gain and mortality distributions of a tropical forest
Nikolai Knapp
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Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
Sabine Attinger
Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Andreas Huth
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
Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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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.
The biomass of forests is determined by forest growth and mortality. These quantities can be...
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