Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

By Simon L. Lewis, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, Bonaventure Sonké, K. Affum‐Baffoe, Timothy R. Baker, L. Ojo, Oliver L. Phillips, J. Reitsma, L. White, J. Comiskey and 23 more. Nature, 2009

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Carbon Content of Tree Tissues: A Synthesis (2012, methodology): “This value has been used in large-scale estimates of C pools and fluxes in natural tropical [12–15] and temperate forests [16–19], as well as smaller-scale estimates of C stocks in managed forests [20], agroforestry systems [21], tree plantations [22–24], and experimental forest sites [25].”
Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments (2011, methodology): “Specific wood density information is often available for only a proportion of stems recorded in forest inventory plots, espe- cially in species-rich forests (c. 60% for instance in Lewis et al. 2009), giving rise to questions about how to estimate missing *Correspondence author.”
Diversity and aboveground biomass in three tropical forest types in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon (2010, methodology): “Importance of African forests in the carbon cycle Forests store 212 Pg carbon in their biomass, more than any other terrestrial ecosystem (Dixon et al., 1994; Clark, 2002).”
Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents (2011, methodology): “Similar general patterns have been observed from analysis of ground surveys (6, 25, 26).”
The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation (2012, neutral): “2004), biomass (Baker et al. 2004; Lewis et al. 2009) and composition (Phillips et al.”
CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015, background): “0.36 Mg C ha"1 yr"1; Lewis et al., 2009a).”
Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests (2009, neutral): “Boreal dry 59 (36) n 24 8 25 (12) n 9 52 84 (39) n 9 60”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “Similarly, data from a 10 country network of 79 long-term monitoring plots across African lowland tropics showed increased C storage in trees from 1968 to 2007 of 0.63MgC/ha/yr, similar to increases in the Amazon per unit area, which was attributed to CO2 fertilization [Lewis et al., 2009b].”