1. Canopy area of large trees explains aboveground biomass variations across neotropical forest landscapes
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Marcus Vinicio Neves d'Oliveira, Michael Keller, Victoria Meyer, Jérôme Chave, Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo, Grégoire Vincent, Antonio Ferraz, David B. Clark, Dahlia Kaki, Sassan Saatchi, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), University of Missouri System, USDA Forest Service, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), University of Leicester, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-10-LABX-25-01/10-LABX-0025,CEBA,CEnter of the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia(2010), ANR: Labex TULIP,TULIP,ANR-10-LABX-0041, ANR-11-INBS-0001/11-INBS-0001,ANAEE-FR,ANAEE-Services(2011), Victoria Meyer, California Institute of Technology/CNRS Université Paul Sabatier, Sassan Saatchi, California Institute of Technology, David B. Clark, University of Missouri, Michael Keller, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Grégoire Vincent, IRD, António Ferraz, California Institute of Technology, Fernando Espírito-Santo, University of Leicester, MARCUS VINICIO NEVES D OLIVEIRA, CPAF-Acre, Dahlia Kaki, California Institute of Technology, Jérôme Chave, CNRS Université Paul Sabatier., California Institute of Technology ( CALTECH ), Missouri University of Science and Technology ( Missouri S&T ), Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations ( UMR AMAP ), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement ( CIRAD ) -Institut national de la recherche agronomique [Montpellier] ( INRA Montpellier ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ( IRD [France-Sud] ), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation ( Embrapa ), Evolution et Diversité Biologique ( EDB ), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ( IRD ) -Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), ANR-10-LABX-25-01/10-LABX-0025,CEBA,CEnter of the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia ( 2010 ), ANR : Labex TULIP,TULIP,ANR-10-LABX-0041, ANR-11-INBS-0001/11-INBS-0001,ANAEE-FR,ANAEE-Services ( 2011 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, ANR-10-LABX-0025,CEBA,CEnter of the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia(2010), ANR-11-IDEX-0002,UNITI,Université Fédérale de Toulouse(2011), ANR-11-INBS-0001,ANAEE-FR,ANAEE-Services(2011), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Canopy ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,lcsh:Life ,Dossel ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,01 natural sciences ,Basal area ,Teledetección ,Biomass ,Estoque ,Inventario forestal ,Raio Laser ,Biomass (ecology) ,Lidar ,French guiana ,Biomassa aérea ,Inventário Florestal ,Logging ,Crown (botany) ,lcsh:QE1-996.5 ,Reservorios de carbono ,Aboveground biomass ,Remote sensing ,[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics ,Large tropical trees ,Brazil ,Woody plant ,Sensoriamento Remoto ,Costa Rica ,Cubierta forestal ,[ SDV.BV.BOT ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics ,Panama ,Neotropical forests ,Rainforest ,010603 evolutionary biology ,Floresta neotropical ,[SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems ,lcsh:QH540-549.5 ,Tropical rain forest ,Carbono ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,Planicies antiguas ,Tree canopy ,[ SDE.BE ] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Lasers ,Carbon sinks ,Planícies antigas ,15. Life on land ,[ SDV.EE.ECO ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems ,Carbon ,Forest canopy ,lcsh:Geology ,lcsh:QH501-531 ,South america ,Bosques neotropicales ,Physical geography ,lcsh:Ecology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,[ SDV.BID.SPT ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,Old-grow lowland ,Forest inventory - Abstract
Large tropical trees store significant amounts of carbon in woody components and their distribution plays an important role in forest carbon stocks and dynamics. Here, we explore the Properties of a new lidar-derived index, the large tree canopy area (LCA) defined as the area occupied by canopy above a reference height. We hypothesize that this simple measure of forest structure representing the crown area of large canopy trees could consistently explain the landscape variations in forest volume and aboveground biomass (AGB) across a range of climate and edaphic conditions. To test this hypothesis, we assembled a unique dataset of high-resolution airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) and ground inventory data in nine undisturbed old-growth Neotropical forests, of which four had plots large enough (1 ha) to calibrate our model.We found that the LCA for trees greater than 27m (~25?30 m) in height and at least 100m2 crown size in a unit area (1 ha), explains more than 75% of total forest volume variations, irrespective of the forest biogeographic conditions. When weighted by average wood density of the stand, LCA can be used as an unbiased estimator of AGB across sites (R2=0.78, RMSE=46.02Mgha-1, bias=-0.63Mgha-1). Unlike other lidar-derived metrics with complex nonlinear relations to biomass, the relationship between LCA and AGB is linear and remains unique across forest types. A comparison with tree inventories across the study sites indicates that LCA correlates best with the crown area (or basal area) of trees with diameter greater than 50 cm. The spatial invariance of the LCA?AGB relationship across the Neotropics suggests a remarkable regularity of forest structure across the landscape and a new technique for systematic monitoring of large trees for their contribution to AGB and changes associated with selective logging, tree mortality and other types of tropical forest disturbance and dynamics. Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-10T00:32:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 26626.pdf: 7114722 bytes, checksum: e7ffe14893657e9c0d19ee67a945ff01 (MD5) 26626suplemento.pdf: 8581750 bytes, checksum: 6dac6c588eb62712e98b0ca551e7f3bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-08
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