Structure and Biomass of Four Lowland Neotropical Forests

By S. DeWalt, Jérôme Chave. 2004

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A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses 1 (2006, background): “A 0.5 cm diameter size limit would approximate a tree cutoff of 1 cm in terms of per stem biomass (DeWalt & Chave 2004) and would better capture the dynamics of the liana community (i.e., growth, mortality, recruitment) than the larger size-classes.”
Above-ground biomass and productivity in a rain forest of eastern South America (2008, methodology): “The accuracy of this method for trunk diameter estimation was found to be of 5% (DeWalt & Chave 2004).”
Diversity and aboveground biomass in three tropical forest types in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon (2010, background): “Of course, as a significant fraction of AGB is stored in very large trees (‡70 cm), the choice of allometric equation based on diameters for this size class can greatly influence AGB estimates (Clark & Clark, 2000; Dewalt & Chave, 2004; Chave et al., 2005; Lewis et al., 2009a).”
Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest (2016, unknown): “They constitute less than 10% of the forest above-ground biomass (Putz 1984a; DeWalt & Chave 2004), but represent a significant share of the plant taxonomic diversity (Gentry 1988; Schnitzer et al. 2012) and they also play an important role in tropical forest ecosystem functioning (Wright et al.…”
Seeing the forest beyond the trees (2015, background): “The literature on the spatial pattern of forest biomass in Amazonia is extremely diverse and sometimes contains contradictory results (Clark & Clark, 2000; DeWalt & Chave, 2004; Slik et al., 2010; Quesada et al., 2012).”
Liana diversity, abundance, and mortality in a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica (2004, methodology): “DeWalt and Chave (2004) suggested that the abundance and basal area of lianas only appears to be lower at La Selva than in other wet lowland neotropical forests surveyed by Gentry (1991a) (transect data set available online from Missouri Botanical Garden), because Gentry may have overestimated liana”
High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon (2010, background): “At the national scale, most tropical countries will rely initially on tier-I methods, which will generate large uncertainties and lower confidence, and thus potentially lower carbon credits (4, 15, 17).”
Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species. (2006, background): “…arguments that accounting for variation in wood density is crucial in tropical biomass estimation protocols (Fearnside 1997, Baker et al. 2004, DeWalt and Chave 2004, MullerLandau 2004, Chave et al. 2005), and for the first time provides a readily accessible database of great relevance in…”
What controls liana success in Neotropical forests (2008, background): “5% of total above-ground biomass (Putz, 1983; DeWalt & Chave, 2004).”
Successional dynamics of woody seedling communities in wet tropical secondary forests (2005, background): “Sites at the La Selva Biological Station have lower liana density (Mascaro et al. 2004), higher palm density ( DeWalt & Chave 2004 ) and a more dense understorey herb layer (Harms et al. 2004) than several other Neotropical forests.”