High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

By Gregory P. Asner, G. Powell, Joseph Mascaro, David E. Knapp, John K. Clark, James Jacobson, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, Aravindh Balaji, Guayana Páez-Acosta, E. Victoria and 3 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests (2014, background): “Asner et al. (2010) describe the Madre de Dios Amazon REDD project, created by the NGO Greenoxx (http://www.greenoxx.com/en/madre-de-dios-the-project.asp).”
Accelerated losses of protected forests from gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon (2016, background): “Second, paving of the Interoceanic Highway through Madre de Dios greatly increased roadway access to forests and prime gold mining sites (Asner et al 2010).”
Monitoring, reporting and verification for national REDD + programmes: two proposals (2011, result): “…technology, and airborne Lidar may have the potential to generate good data on stock change in the future (Asner 2009), but the costs, particularly of interpretation, are still large, but results from new large area experiments suggest more efficient approaches in the future (Asner et al 2010).”
High jaguar densities and large population sizes in the core habitat of the southwestern Amazon (2013, background): “The southern part of the Peruvian Amazon in the department of Madre de Dios still consists of largely continuous forest (Asner et al., 2010).”
An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets (2016, background): “Part of the mismatch was in the range of AGB changes that can be attributes to regrowth (1–13 Mg ha 1 year ) (IPCC, 2003) or low-intensity degradation (14– 100 Mg ha , or 3–15% of total stock) (Asner et al., 2010; Pearson et al., 2014).”
Creation of a high spatio-temporal resolution global database of continuous mangrove forest cover for the 21st century (CGMFC-21) (2014, background): “Indeed, it is notable that current remote sensing products are not adequate to capture the spatial variability required to produce accurate forest carbon maps (Asner et al., 2010).”
Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees (2014, methodology): “This is important because most of the tropical forest carbon sequestration occurs in moist tropical forests and the corresponding Chave et al. (2005) allometry has been used frequently in the published literature (see e.g. Asner et al., 2010 and the related discussion in Skole et al., 2011).”
Measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under REDD+ (2015, background): “…light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data is particularly valuable for carbon stock mapping because it provides estimates of canopy height, cover and vertical structure that together are highly correlated with aboveground carbon stock (Dubayah et al 2000, Næsset and Bjerknes 2001, Asner et al 2010).”