Michael W. Palace

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a new global tropical forest database consisting of 39 955 concurrent H and D measurements encompassing 283 sites in 22 tropical countries, and used this database to determine if H:D relationships differ by geographic region and forest type (wet to dry forests, including zones of tension where forest and savanna overlap).

TL;DR: It is shown that the apparent green up of Amazon forests in optical remote sensing data resulted from seasonal changes in near-infrared reflectance, an artefact of variations in sun-sensor geometry, and that correcting this bidirectional reflectance effect eliminated seasonally changes in surface reflectance.

TL;DR: In this article, a high-resolution remote sensing (e.g., 1 m passive optical/NIR, or small footprint lidar) is used to map crown geometry and gaps.

TL;DR: This estimate includes all live and dead plant material above- and below-ground with the exception of soil organic matter and propagated errors in sampling and those associated with allometric relations and other ratios used to estimate biomass of roots, lianas and epiphytes, and necromass.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed 19.75 ha along four 1-km transects of well-drained old-growth upland forest in the Tapajos National Forest near Santarem, Para ´, Brazil (2 8519 S, 548589 W) in order to assess carbon pool sizes, fluxes, and climatic controls on carbon balance.