Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

By Sassan S. Saatchi, N. Harris, Sandra A. Brown, Michael Andrew Lefsky, Edward T. A. Mitchard, W. Salas, Brian R Zutta, W. Buermann, Simon L. Lewis, S. Hagen and 4 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, background): “Tropical forests play an important role in global carbon storage (Saatchi et al. 2011) and sequestration (Malhi 2012), and hence, in climate change mitigation strategies (e.”
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2021, background): “1); (2) whether recent changes of policies and human activities in 2019 have a detectable effect on forest area and AGB; and (3) the relative contribution of deforestation and forest degradation (forest fragmentation, edge-effects, logging, forest fire and drought) to inter-annual variation of AGB l”
Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, methodology): “We derived total biomass from AGB by applying the equation (1)used by Saatchi et al (2011): Total Biomass AGB 0.489 AGB .”
Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica (2013, methodology): “…carbon, we used indicators of above- and belowground carbon in vegetation, taken from a benchmark map of forest carbon density at 1-km resolution (Saatchi et al. 2011), and carbon in soils, calculated from data on soil organic matter, bulk density and gravel content (FAO [Food and Agriculture…”
Deforestation risk due to commodity crop expansion in sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “3 Mha (68%) of Cameroon’s land suitable for agriculture is under dense tropical forest [27, 38], that averages the third largest pool of total carbon stocks in Africa at 129 Mg C ha 1 [39].”
Variations and determinants of carbon content in plants: a global synthesis (2017, positive): “…were significantly lower than the canonical value of 50 %, which was widely used to convert vegetation biomass to C stock at large scales, such as in temperate forests (De Vries et al., 2006), tropical forests (Lewis et al., 2009; Saatchi et al., 2011), and global forests (Keith et al., 2009).”
Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm (2016, background): “processes over tropical South America? Clim Dyn 41(11-12):3127–3143.”
Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient (2012, background): “, 2009) and 25% of the tropical forest carbon stock (Saatchi et al., 2011).”
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination (2017, background): “One suggested priority for monitoring ecosystems is developing metrics incorporating descriptions of properties such as canopy height, leaf area, biomass [45], as well as structural biochemical components.”
Seeing the forest beyond the trees (2015, methodology): “Therefore, to meet this challenge, ground and remote-sensing observations have been combined to provide estimates of biomass distribution in the tropics at regional to continental scales (Saatchi et al., 2007, 2011; Mascaro et al., 2011; Baccini et al., 2012; Asner et al., 2013).”