Authors
Edward TA Mitchard, Ted R Feldpausch, Roel JW Brienen, Gabriela Lopez‐Gonzalez, Abel Monteagudo, Timothy R Baker, Simon L Lewis, Jon Lloyd, Carlos A Quesada, Manuel Gloor, Hans Ter Steege, Patrick Meir, Esteban Alvarez, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Luiz EOC Aragão, Luzmila Arroyo, Gerardo Aymard, Olaf Banki, Damien Bonal, Sandra Brown, Foster I Brown, Carlos E Cerón, Victor Chama Moscoso, Jerome Chave, James A Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo, Massiel Corrales Medina, Lola Da Costa, Flavia RC Costa, Anthony Di Fiore, Tomas F Domingues, Terry L Erwin, Todd Frederickson, Niro Higuchi, Euridice N Honorio Coronado, Tim J Killeen, William F Laurance, Carolina Levis, William E Magnusson, Beatriz S Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Irina Mendoza Polo, Piyush Mishra, Marcelo T Nascimento, David Neill, Mario P Núñez Vargas, Walter A Palacios, Alexander Parada, Guido Pardo Molina, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Nigel Pitman, Carlos A Peres, Lourens Poorter, Adriana Prieto, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Zorayda Restrepo Correa, Anand Roopsind, Katherine H Roucoux, Agustin Rudas, Rafael P Salomão, Juliana Schietti, Marcos Silveira, Priscila F De Souza, Marc K Steininger, Juliana Stropp, John Terborgh, Raquel Thomas, Marisol Toledo, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Tinde R Van Andel, Geertje MF van Der Heijden, Ima CG Vieira, Simone Vieira, Emilio Vilanova‐Torre, Vincent A Vos, Ophelia Wang, Charles E Zartman, Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver L Phillips
Publication date
2014/8
Journal
Global ecology and biogeography
Volume
23
Issue
8
Pages
935-946
Description
Aim
The accurate mapping of forest carbon stocks is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle, for assessing emissions from deforestation, and for rational land‐use planning. Remote sensing (RS) is currently the key tool for this purpose, but RS does not estimate vegetation biomass directly, and thus may miss significant spatial variations in forest structure. We test the stated accuracy of pantropical carbon maps using a large independent field dataset.
Location
Tropical forests of the Amazon basin. The permanent archive of the field plot data can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5521/FORESTPLOTS.NET/2014_1
Methods
Two recent pantropical RS maps of vegetation carbon are compared to a unique ground‐plot dataset, involving tree measurements in 413 large inventory plots located in nine countries. The RS maps were compared directly to field plots, and kriging of the field data was used to …
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