Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

By Alessandro Baccini, Wayne S. Walker, Luis Carvalho, M. Farina, D. Sulla‐Menashe, Richard A. Houghton. Science, 2017

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets (2019, neutral): “Intact forests, and especially tropical forests, sequester twice as much carbon as planted monocultures (7, 8).”
• Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI (2020, methodology): “These are important descriptors of the canopy structure related to the compactness and filling of the canopy space as well as the presence of understory and low vegetation. To derive functional diversity, we analyzed the distribution of pixels or GEDIsim shots of an area of interest (e.g. 1 km2) in ”
• Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics (2019, background): “Forest degradation activities not considered here, such as selective harvest, edge-effects related to road building, and small fires, along with changes in background mortality rates (6), may also reduce the size of the intact or regrowth sink (32).”