Stephen Adu-Bredu

TL;DR: Overall, the uptake of carbon into Earth’s intact tropical forests peaked in the 1990s and independent observations indicating greater recent carbon uptake into the Northern Hemisphere landmass reinforce the conclusion that the intact tropical forest carbon sink has already peaked.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a sampling methodology and calculation procedures to assess biomass for tropical tree species of contrasted tree shapes in Africa, identifying factors affecting within and between trees wood density, and proposed an allometric model that integrates these factors and evaluated the reliability of using generalized allometric equations in this type of forests.

TL;DR: Forest pioneer tree species survived best through fire and drought in the savanna compared to the other two vegetation types, likely a result of the open-canopied savanna providing greater access to light, thereby releasing seedlings from light limitation and enabling them to make and store more starch.

TL;DR: The past and present state processes of change in African rainforests are reviewed, and the challenges and opportunities for maintaining a viable future for these biomes are explored.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an outlook on the carbon balance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by presenting a summary of currently available results from the project CarboAfrica (namely net ecosystem productivity and emissions from fires, deforestation and forest degradation, by field and model estimates) supplemented by bibliographic data and compared with a new synthesis of the data from national communications to UNFCCC.