Rico Fischer

TL;DR: The fractal and particle analysis provide a relevant methodological framework to further the understanding of the spatial effects of economic pressure on forestry.

TL;DR: Almost 130 million forest fragments in three continents are identified that show surprisingly similar power-law size and perimeter distributions as well as fractal dimensions, suggesting that forest fragmentation is close to the critical point of percolation.

TL;DR: High-resolution satellite maps of forest cover with estimates of the edge effect show that 19% of the remaining area of tropical forests lies within 100 m of a forest edge, representing 31% of currently estimated annual carbon releases due to tropical deforestation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the evolution of the individual-based and process-based forest gap model (FORMIND) and its application to tropical forests, including physiological processes on tree level (photosynthesis, respiration, tree growth, mortality, regeneration, competition).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present the development of the models used to create GEDI's footprint-level (~25 m) AGBD (GEDI04_A) product, including a description of the datasets used and the procedure for final model selection.