Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

By Jérôme Chave, M. Réjou‐Méchain, A. Búrquez, E. Chidumayo, M. Colgan, W. Delitti, Á. Duque, Tron Eid, Philip Martin Fearnside, Rosa C. Goodman and 14 more. Global Change Biology, 2014

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Simultaneous estimation of above- and below-ground biomass in tropical forests of Viet Nam (2017, methodology): “Therefore, researchers have commonly focused on developing pan-tropical or generic multi-species models (e.g. Basuki et al., 2009; Brown, 1997; Chave et al., 2005, 2014; IPCC, 2003).”
Aboveground biomass partitioning and additive models for Combretum glutinosum and Terminalia laxiflora in West Africa (2018, background): “However, allometric equations that includes height and/or wood density as additional predictor variables have been published [5,33]; integrating height and wood density in biomass assessment can improve the predictive abilities of equations as well as their appropriateness to different locations [7,”
Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, methodology): “For each tree and each of the two census years, we calculated the aboveground biomass using the equation from Chave et al. (2014): Biomass ¼ expð 1:803 0:976 ðEÞ þ 0:976 logðWDÞ þ 2:673 logðDBHÞ 0:0299 ðlogðDBHÞÞ2Þ where DBH is the diameter at breast height (in cm) and WD is the wood density (in g…”
Closing a gap in tropical forest biomass estimation: taking crown mass variation into account in pantropical allometries (2016, methodology): “The reference model (m0) proposed by Chave et al. (2014) presented, when fitted to DATAREF, a bias that was a function of tree mass, with a systematic AGB overestimation for trees smaller than approximately 10 Mg and an underestimation for larger trees, reaching approximately 25 % for trees greater…”
Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest (2016, positive): “Because of high tree mortality rate, we also observed more frequent gap openings which is expected to favour liana maintenance and establishment (Dalling et al. 2012; Ledo & Schnitzer 2014). The liana-infested forest stored 2.4 times less AGB than in the high-canopy forest, a figure comparable to th”
A survey of remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation methods in forest ecosystems (2016, methodology): “Direct collection of field measurements is the most accurate method to obtain biomass reference data and is generally used to develop species-specific allometric models based on measured attributes such as diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height, and/or wood density (Overman et al. 1994; Chave ”