Ben Hur Marimon Junior

TL;DR: Pantropical biomass maps are widely used by governments and by projects aiming to reduce deforestation using carbon offsets, but may have significant regional biases and carbon accounting techniques must be revised to account for the known ecological variation in tree wood density and allometry.

TL;DR: In this article, a pan-tropical dataset of 360 plots located in structurally intact old-growth closed-canopy forest, surveyed using standardised methods, allowing a multi-scale evaluation of diversity-carbon relationships in tropical forests.

TL;DR: The fertility of the soils of the two areas was not different to support the hypothesis that the occurrence of the cerradao was due to the higher fertility of its soil, which could result in a higher availability of water throughout the year for the trees.

TL;DR: It is found that woody NPP is not correlated with stem mortality rates and is weakly positively correlated with AGB, and across the four models, basin‐wide average AGB is similar to the mean of the observations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrated observed variations in tropical vegetation structure and floristic composition into a single classification scheme by using clustering techniques to identify twelve structural groupings based on height and canopy cover of the dominant upper stratum.