Authors
James A Lutz, Tucker J Furniss, Daniel J Johnson, Stuart J Davies, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina J Anderson‐Teixeira, Ana Andrade, Jennifer Baltzer, Kendall ML Becker, Erika M Blomdahl, Norman A Bourg, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David FRP Burslem, C Alina Cansler, Ke Cao, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Li‐Wan Chang, Kuo‐Jung Chao, Wei‐Chun Chao, Jyh‐Min Chiang, Chengjin Chu, George B Chuyong, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Handanakere S Dattaraja, Alvaro Duque, Corneille EN Ewango, Gunter A Fischer, Christine Fletcher, James A Freund, Christian Giardina, Sara J Germain, Gregory S Gilbert, Zhanqing Hao, Terese Hart, Billy CH Hau, Fangliang He, Andrew Hector, Robert W Howe, Chang‐Fu Hsieh, Yue‐Hua Hu, Stephen P Hubbell, Faith M Inman‐Narahari, Akira Itoh, David Janík, Abdul Rahman Kassim, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J Larson, YiDe Li, Yiching Lin, Shirong Liu, Shawn Lum, Keping Ma, Jean‐Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean M McMahon, William J McShea, Hervé R Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Michael Morecroft, Paul M Musili, Jonathan A Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Alexandre de Oliveira, Perry Ong, David A Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G Parker, Rajit Patankar, Richard P Phillips, Glen Reynolds, Lawren Sack, Guo‐Zhang M Song, Sheng‐Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I‐Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S Suresh, Mark E Swanson, Sylvester Tan, Duncan W Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Alberto Vicentini, Tomáš Vrška, Xugao Wang, George D Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Shu‐Hui Wu, Han Xu, Takuo Yamakura, Sandra Yap, Jess K Zimmerman
Publication date
2018/7
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
27
Issue
7
Pages
849-864
Description
Aim
To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and species richness across forest biomes.
Location
Global.
Time period
Early 21st century.
Major taxa studied
Woody plants.
Methods
We examined the contribution of large trees to forest density, richness and biomass using a global network of 48 large (from 2 to 60 ha) forest plots representing 5,601,473 stems across 9,298 species and 210 plant families. This contribution was assessed using three metrics: the largest 1% of trees ≥ 1 cm diameter at breast height (DBH), all trees ≥ 60 cm DBH, and those rank‐ordered largest trees that cumulatively comprise 50% of forest biomass.
Results
Averaged across these 48 forest plots, the largest 1% of trees ≥ 1 cm DBH comprised 50% of aboveground live biomass, with hectare‐scale standard deviation of 26%. Trees ≥ 60 cm DBH comprised 41% of aboveground live tree …
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JA Lutz, TJ Furniss, DJ Johnson, SJ Davies, D Allen… - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018