Authors
Jean‐François Bastin, Ervan Rutishauser, James R Kellner, Sassan Saatchi, Raphael Pélissier, Bruno Hérault, Ferry Slik, Jan Bogaert, Charles De Cannière, Andrew R Marshall, John Poulsen, Patricia Alvarez‐Loyayza, Ana Andrade, Albert Angbonga‐Basia, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Narayanan Ayyappan, Celso Paulo de Azevedo, Olaf Banki, Nicolas Barbier, Jorcely G Barroso, Hans Beeckman, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Katrin Boehning‐Gaese, Hilandia Brandão, Francis Q Brearley, Mireille Breuer Ndoundou Hockemba, Roel Brienen, Jose Luis C Camargo, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz, Benoit Cassart, Jérôme Chave, Robin Chazdon, Georges Chuyong, David B Clark, Connie J Clark, Richard Condit, Euridice N Honorio Coronado, Priya Davidar, Thales De Haulleville, Laurent Descroix, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Aurelie Dourdain, Vincent Droissart, Thomas Duncan, Javier Silva Espejo, Santiago Espinosa, Nina Farwig, Adeline Fayolle, Ted R Feldpausch, Antonio Ferraz, Christine Fletcher, Krisna Gajapersad, Jean‐François Gillet, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Christelle Gonmadje, James Grogan, David Harris, Sebastian K Herzog, Jürgen Homeier, Wannes Hubau, Stephen P Hubbell, Koen Hufkens, Johanna Hurtado, Narcisse G Kamdem, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Michael Kessler, Nicolas Labrière, Yves Laumonier, Susan Laurance, William F Laurance, Simon L Lewis, Moses B Libalah, Gauthier Ligot, Jon Lloyd, Thomas E Lovejoy, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz S Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Emmanuel H Martin, Paulus Matius, Victoria Meyer, Casimero Mendoza Bautista, Abel Monteagudo‐Mendoza, Arafat Mtui, David Neill, Germaine Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Guido Pardo, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Oliver L Phillips, Nigel CA Pitman, Pierre Ploton, Quentin Ponette, Brahmasamudra Ranganna Ramesh, Jean‐Claude Razafimahaimodison, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Samir Gonçalves Rolim, Hugo Romero Saltos, Luiz Marcelo Brum Rossi, Wilson Roberto Spironello, Francesco Rovero, Philippe Saner, Denise Sasaki, Mark Schulze, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Bonaventure Sonke, J Daniel Soto, Cintia Rodrigues de Souza, Juliana Stropp, Martin JP Sullivan, Ben Swanepoel, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Nicolas Texier, Takeshi Toma, Renato Valencia, Luis Valenzuela, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Tinde R Van Andel, Rodolfo Vasque, Hans Verbeeck, Pandi Vivek, Jason Vleminckx, Vincent A Vos, Fabien H Wagner, Papi Puspa Warsudi, Verginia Wortel, Roderick J Zagt, Donatien Zebaze
Publication date
2018/11
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
27
Issue
11
Pages
1366-1383
Description
Aim
Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations, offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely and to investigate their variations on broad scales. However, despite rapid development of metrics to characterize the forest canopy from remotely sensed data, a gap remains between aerial and field inventories. To close this gap, we propose a new pan‐tropical model to predict plot‐level forest structure properties and biomass from only the largest trees.
Location
Pan‐tropical.
Time period
Early 21st century.
Major taxa studied
Woody plants.
Methods
Using a dataset of 867 plots distributed among 118 sites across the tropics, we tested the prediction of the quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey's height, community wood density and aboveground biomass (AGB) from the ith largest trees.
Results
Measuring the largest trees in tropical forests enables …
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