Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps> 0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4–0.7 million km2
a− 1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor …

Forest mensuration–the science of measurement applied to forest vegetation and forest
products–holds value for basic ecology as well as sustainable forest management. As …

Tropical deforestation continues to be a major driver of biodiversity loss and greenhouse
gas emissions. Remote sensing technology is increasingly used to assess changes in forest …

Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

The seasonality of sunlight and rainfall regulates net primary production in tropical forests.
Previous studies have suggested that light is more limiting than water for tropical forest …

Efforts to mitigate climate change through the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and
Degradation (REDD) depend on mapping and monitoring of tropical forest carbon stocks …

While research continues on the causes, consequences, and rates of deforestation and
forest degradation in the tropics, there is little agreement about what exactly is being lost …

In temperate forests, autumn leaf phenology signals the end of leaf growing season and
shows large variability across tree-crowns, which importantly mediates photosynthetic …

The cost of forest sampling can be reduced substantially by the ability to estimate forest and
tree parameters directly from aerial photographs. However, in order to do so it is necessary …