Estimation of biomass in a neotropical forest of French Guiana: spatial and temporal variability

By Jérôme Chave, Bernard Riera, Marc A. Dubois. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2001

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Variation in aboveground tree live biomass in a central Amazonian Forest: Effects of soil and topography (2006, background): “, 2003) and French Guiana (Chave et al., 2001) were from large and continuous plots (50 and 20 ha, respectively) that could be biased by site selection and too large to detect gradients along the catena.”
Assessing inter- and intra-specific variation in trunk carbon concentration for 32 neotropical tree species (2003, neutral): “Much attention has recently been given to the improvement of these equations (Chave et al. 2001; Ketterings et al. 2001; Nascimento and Laurance 2002).”
Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests (2013, background): “Several observational studies have indicated that tree biomass of forests with a high biomass of lianas is considerably lower than that of forests with lower liana abundance, with their carbon storage capacity reduced by up to 50 percent (Chave et al. 2001, Laurance et al. 2001, Malhi et al. 2006).”
Allometry and partitioning of above- and below-ground biomass in farmed eucalyptus species dominant in Western Kenyan agricultural landscapes (2013, background): “[25] reported that biomass values of the smallest trees strongly affect values of allometric coefficients, while Kuyah et al.”
Structure and Biomass of Four Lowland Neotropical Forests (2004, methodology): “Large trees are difficult to measure because special equipment is usually needed to get diameters above buttresses; however, trees 30 cm diameter or greater hold 70– 80 percent of the AGB and are thus the most important component of AGB (Chave et al. 2001).”
Diversity and aboveground biomass in three tropical forest types in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon (2010, methodology): “Biomass was estimated using allometric regression models to convert stem diameter measurements from the inventory data to an estimate of AGB (Chave et al., 2005; De Wasseige et al., 2009; Lewis et al., 2009a; Stegen et al., 2009). We use the moist forest equation derived by Chave et al. (2005), as i”
Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates. (2004, background): “This renewed interest in tropical forest inventories has also motivated a new literature on methodological aspects that have greatly improved our confidence in biomass data estimated from plots (Sheil 1995; MacDicken 1997; Condit 1998; Higuchi et al. 1998; Chave et al. 2001; Clark et al. 2001a,b; Cl”
On simplifying allometric analyses of forest biomass (2004, methodology): “Moreover, Chave et al. (2001) supported that the biomass values of the smallest trees strongly affected the values of the coefficients in the allometric relation between M and D.”
Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests (2005, methodology): “The use of allometric regression models is a crucial step in estimating AGB, yet it is seldom directly tested (Crow 1978; Cunia 1987; Brown et al. 1989; Houghton et al. 2001; Chave et al. 2001).”
Allometric equations for tree species and carbon stocks for forests of northwestern Mexico (2009, background): “42 Ln D) (Chave et al., 2001); (pi/0.”
Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients (2011, background): “Nonclimatic factors such as disturbance (Chave et al., 2001), nutrient availability (van Groenigen et al.”
Censusing and Measuring Lianas: A Quantitative Comparison of the Common Methods 1 (2006, methodology): “We conducted this study in October 2002 in two upland forested areas near the Nouragues field station: the Grand Plateau (GP) and the Petit Plateau (PP), where permanent sampling plots have been established for studying tree dynamics (Chave et al. 2001).”
Contrasting above‐ground biomass balance in a Neotropical rain forest (2010, methodology): “2004b; Chave et al. 2006; Patiño et al. 2009). AGB estimates integrating height were on average only 5% lower. Height-based biomass stocks ranged from 370 to 422Mgha . This difference of estimation is similar to that reported by Chave et al. (2005) and confirms the relevance of the allometry employe”