Authors
JW Ferry Slik, Gary Paoli, Krista McGuire, Ieda Amaral, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith Bastian, Lilian Blanc, Frans Bongers, Patrick Boundja, Connie Clark, Murray Collins, Gilles Dauby, Yi Ding, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Eduardo Eler, Leandro Ferreira, Olle Forshed, Gabriella Fredriksson, Jean‐Francois Gillet, David Harris, Miguel Leal, Yves Laumonier, Yadvinder Malhi, Asyraf Mansor, Emanuel Martin, Kazuki Miyamoto, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Reuben Nilus, Eddy Nurtjahya, Átila Oliveira, Onrizal Onrizal, Alexander Parada‐Gutierrez, Andrea Permana, Lourens Poorter, John Poulsen, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Francesco Rovero, Andes Rozak, Douglas Sheil, Javier Silva‐Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Wilson Spironelo, Hans Ter Steege, Tariq Stevart, Gilberto Enrique Navarro‐Aguilar, Terry Sunderland, Eizi Suzuki, Jianwei Tang, Ida Theilade, Geertje Van Der Heijden, Johan Van Valkenburg, Tran Van Do, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent Vos, Serge Wich, Hannsjoerg Wöll, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Runguo Zang, Ming‐Gang Zhang, Nicole Zweifel
Publication date
2013/12
Journal
Global ecology and biogeography
Volume
22
Issue
12
Pages
1261-1271
Description
Aim
Large trees (d.b.h. ≥ 70 cm) store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, potentially leading to declining forest biomass storage. Here we determine the importance of large trees for tropical forest biomass storage and explore which intrinsic (species trait) and extrinsic (environment) variables are associated with the density of large trees and forest biomass at continental and pan‐tropical scales.
Location
Pan‐tropical.
Methods
Aboveground biomass (AGB) was calculated for 120 intact lowland moist forest locations. Linear regression was used to calculate variation in AGB explained by the density of large trees. Akaike information criterion weights (AICc‐wi) were used to calculate averaged correlation coefficients for all possible multiple regression models between AGB/density of large trees and environmental and species trait variables …
Scholar articles
JWF Slik, G Paoli, K McGuire, I Amaral, J Barroso… - Global ecology and biogeography, 2013