tropical forest
Total carbon accumulation in a tropical forest landscape
... regrowing tropical forests in the Porce region of Colombia, derive a predictive empirical model, and com- pare its predictions with estimations of tropical forest regrowth used for large-scale carbon ...
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Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees
... for tropical forests 4 tends to be higher than other ecosystems, typically ranging from ...of tropical forest autotrophic respiration being below ground, is that tropical trees, growing on ...
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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
... for tropical protected areas on a global scale, we conducted a systematic and uniquely comprehensive assessment of long-term changes within 60 protected areas stratified across the world’s major tropical ...
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Assessment of biophysical properties of Royal Belum tropical forest, Malaysia
... the tropical forests of ...of tropical forest carbon stocks over large geographical ...the Forest Research Institute of Malaysian Forest Reserve (Hamdan et ...Mangrove Forest ...
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Root layering in a tropical forest after logging (Central Vietnam)
... of tropical rain forest and they deal with the issue from diff erent ...of tropical regions and mainly to the society-wide interest in the issues of tropical forest ...Considerate ...
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Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest
... in tropical forests and are loci of high tree recruitment, growth, and carbon ...the forest level revealed that lianas in gaps reduced net forest woody biomass accumulation by ...in forest ...
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Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome
... in the Udzungwa Mountains (Tanzania) was obtained from the Leverhulme Trust under the Valuing the Arc project. We thank the ANPN (Gabon), WCS-Congo and WCS-DR Congo, Marien Ngouabi University and the University of ...
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Perspectives of Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Tropical Forest Management
... of forest in western Amazonia experienced a strong water deficit during the dry season of 2005 and a closely corresponding decline in canopy structure and ...humid tropical forest of ...
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Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees
... But why, as a whole, should most of the forests of the Amazon and those of Australia be of a different H:D allom- etry compared to Africa and Asia, even once structural and environmental effects are taken into account? ...
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Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD+
... Generally tropical forest degradation is defined as the substantial decline in forest structure or function over time due to human activities, without complete conversion to another land use, ...
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Tropical forest light regimes in a human-modified landscape
... estimate forest vertical light environments using profiles of hemispherical ...the forest canopy is prohibitively difficult, and hence, there are few data on vertical patterns of canopy struc- ture and light ...
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Uncertainty in the spatial distribution of tropical forest biomass: a comparison of pan-tropical maps
... and 50 Mg ha -1 in RS1 and 30–100 Mg ha -1 in RS2, and the tropical forest peak centred around 240 Mg ha -1 in RS1 and 310 Mg ha -1 in RS2. The distributions for Africa are closer to negative-J ...
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ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS FOR ESTIMATING ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS IN PAPUA TROPICAL FOREST
... in forest ecosystem are including tree biomass, necromass, under- storey and soil organic matters (Hairiah and Rahayu, ...of tropical forest (Post et ...
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Estimating Tropical Forest Structure Using a Terrestrial Lidar
... biomes. Tropical forests are often considered the most structurally complex and yet least understood of for- ested ...a tropical forest to estimate forest ...
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A Global Analysis of Deforestation in Moist Tropical Forest Protected Areas.
... Overall, we found that PAs do reduce deforestation but with substantial variability within and between countries. Future work to better understand the reasons for this variability in the performance is needed. Our buffer ...
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Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes
... map forest carbon stocks (Mitchard et ...during forest succession, previous work has attempted to estimate WD from ALS-derived metrics such as TCH, but with mixed results (Asner & Mascaro 2014; Jucker ...
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Tropical forest gain and interactions amongst agents of forest change
... for forest carbon payments, a feat beyond the ability of WCs due to their relatively insecure land tenure and lesser communal ...and forest inventories required by non-local institutions. The ...
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Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees
... We further note that is by no means clear that long-term temperature effects will be of the same magnitude as interannual variations (Atkin et al. 2005), but even if so, for the projected increase in air temperatures ...
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Soil does not explain monodominance in a central African tropical forest
... Basin forest block, in Dja Faunal Reserve, South East Cameroon, to test whether there are differences in soil properties between the two forest ...two forest types in ...same forest type ...
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Large lianas as hyperdynamic elements of the tropical forest canopy
... Here we report liana and tree structure and dynamics data from a series of upper Amazonian forest sites in Peru, representing the longest geographically extensive study of large liana dynamics in the world (see ...
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