A critical review of forest biomass estimation models, common mistakes and corrective measures

GW Sileshi - Forest Ecology and Management, 2014 - Elsevier
The choice of biomass estimation models (BEMs) is one of the most important sources of
uncertainty in quantifying forest biomass and carbon fluxes. This review was motivated by …

[PDF][PDF] Methods to estimate above-ground biomass and carbon stock in natural forests-a review

KT Vashum, S Jayakumar - Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography, 2012 - academia.edu
Carbon exists as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and constitutes about 0.04% of the
atmosphere. In the recent past, it has gained a lot of attention as a greenhouse gas, as it has …

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

J Chave, M Réjou‐Méchain, A Búrquez… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial carbon stock mapping is important for the successful implementation of climate
change mitigation policies. Its accuracy depends on the availability of reliable allometric …

Trends in global research in forest carbon sequestration: A bibliometric analysis

L Huang, M Zhou, J Lv, K Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on the Web of Science Core Collection databases from 1990 to 2018, a scientometric
analysis of 1,284 academic works related to forest carbon sequestration is carried out to …

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

TR Feldpausch, J Lloyd, SL Lewis, RJW Brienen… - …, 2012 - bg.copernicus.org
Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree
height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass …

A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mapping

GP Asner, J Mascaro, HC Muller-Landau, G Vieilledent… - Oecologia, 2012 - Springer
Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is fast turning the corner from demonstration
technology to a key tool for assessing carbon stocks in tropical forests. With its ability to …

Updated generalized biomass equations for North American tree species

DC Chojnacky, LS Heath, JC Jenkins - Forestry, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Historically, tree biomass at large scales has been estimated by applying dimensional
analysis techniques and field measurements such as diameter at breast height (dbh) in …

[图书][B] Tree and forest measurement

PW West, PW West - 2009 - Springer
Traditionally, forest measurement textbooks have been concerned primarily with
determination of the amounts of the principal commercial product of forests, wood. This was …

Testing the generality of above‐ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scale

KI Paul, SH Roxburgh, J Chave… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate ground‐based estimation of the carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems is critical to
quantifying the global carbon budget. Allometric models provide cost‐effective methods for …

The importance of crown dimensions to improve tropical tree biomass estimates

RC Goodman, OL Phillips, TR Baker - Ecological Applications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests play a vital role in the global carbon cycle, but the amount of carbon they
contain and its spatial distribution remain uncertain. Recent studies suggest that once tree …