Sassan Saatchi

TL;DR: A “benchmark” map of biomass carbon stocks over 2.5 billion ha of forests on three continents, encompassing all tropical forests, for the early 2000s is presented, which will be invaluable for REDD assessments at both project and national scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that global spaceborne observations of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibited a strong linear correlation with gross primary production (GPP) and showed that the fluorescence emission even without any additional climatic or model information has the same or better predictive skill in estimating GPP as those derived from traditional remotely-sensed vegetation indices using ancillary data and model assumptions.

TL;DR: In this article, a decision tree approach was used to develop the spatial distribution of aboveground live biomass (AGLB) for seven distinct biomass classes of lowland old-growth forests with more than 80% accuracy.

TL;DR: A global, spatially explicit and observation-based assessment of whole-ecosystem carbon turnover times that combines new estimates of vegetation and soil organic carbon stocks and fluxes finds that the overall mean global carbon turnover time is years (95 per cent confidence interval).

TL;DR: This paper used satellite observations of gross forest cover loss and a map of forest carbon stocks to estimate gross carbon emissions across tropical regions between 2000 and 2005 as 0.81 petagram of carbon per year, with a 90% prediction interval of 0.57 to 1.22 petagrams of CO 2 per year.