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