Censusing and Measuring Lianas: A Quantitative Comparison of the Common Methods 1

By Stefan A. Schnitzer, S. DeWalt, Jérôme Chave. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Resource‐based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community (2012, background): “…and structure remain rare, perhaps because of a lack of resources for ﬁeld identiﬁcation, and because standardized protocols for liana surveys have only recently been developed (e.g. Parren et al. 2005; Gerwing et al. 2006; Schnitzer, DeWalt & Chave 2006; Schnitzer, Rutishauser & Aguilar 2008).”
High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon (2010, background): “3 m in height allows for more rapid assessment without differences in density or basal area measurements (12).”
Above-ground biomass and productivity in a rain forest of eastern South America (2008, methodology): “To the south of the GP, patches of forest with an overabundance of lianas of unknown origin are encountered (Chave et al. 2001, Schnitzer & Bongers 2002, Schnitzer et al. 2006).”
3-D voxel-based solid modeling of a broad-leaved tree for accurate volume estimation using portable scanning lidar (2013, methodology): “To understand the relationship between these functions and structure, many structural parameters, including height, stem diameter, leaf area density, volume, and biomass, have been measured by a variety of methods (Bragg, 2008; Norman and Campbell, 1989; Schnitzer et al., 2006).”
A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses 1 (2006, background): “For example, estimates of liana abundance, basal area, and biomass all vary with the position on stems where diameters are measured and whether ramets (i.e., clonally-derived stems) or genets (i.e., genetically distinct individuals) are counted (Schnitzer et al. 2006).”
Lianas Have a Greater Competitive Effect Than Trees of Similar Biomass on Tropical Canopy Trees (2012, unknown): “…saplings and understory trees surrounding the target canopy trees using the equation AGB ¼ exp[a þ b ln(D)], where D was the diameter expressed in centimeters and a ¼ 1.484 and b ¼ 2.657 for lianas (Schnitzer et al. 2006), and a¼ 2.134 and b ¼ 2.530 for saplings and understory trees (Brown 1997).”