1. Guidelines for documenting and reporting tree allometric equations
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Federico Alice Guier, Lars Gunnar Marklund, Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, Fabián Milla, Miguel Cifuentes Jara, Laurent Saint-André, Héctor Castañeda Lombis, Omar R. Lopez, Daniel Piotto, James A. Westfall, Luis Rangel García, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Mauricio Zapata-Cuartas, Charles T. Scott, Matieu Henry, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, José de Jesús Návar Chaidez, Craig Wayson, José María Michel Fuentes, Rafael Rubilar Pons, Abner Jiménez Galo, Carla Ramírez Zea, Ruby Cuenca Lara, Kelvin Cueva Rojas, Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya, Edwin Castellanos López, Javier Fernández Vega, Johnny Pérez, Edgar Ortiz Malavassi, UN-REDD, FAO, SilvaCarbon Program, ANR (ANR-12-LABXARBRE-01, ANR-10-LABX-2501, ANR-10- LABX-0041, and ANR-12-EBID-0002)
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biomasse forestière ,Biomass (ecology) ,Ecology ,Agroforestry ,métadonnées ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Forest management ,Tree allometry ,Climate change ,Forestry ,Vegetation ,15. Life on land ,Carbon sequestration ,guide de bonnes pratiques ,séquestration du carbone ,Tree (data structure) ,13. Climate action ,Bioenergy ,forêt ,données de la recherche ,équation allométrique ,Environmental science - Abstract
1 IntroductionGiven the pressing need to quantify carbon fluxes associatedwith terrestrial vegetation dynamics, an increasing number ofresearchers have sought to improve estimates of tree volume,biomass, and carbon stocks. Tree allometric equations arecritical tools for such purpose and have the potential toimprove our understanding about carbon sequestration inwoody vegetation, to support the implementation of policiesand mechanisms designed to mitigate climate change (e.g.CDM and REDD+; Agrawal et al. 2011), to calculate costsand benefits associated with forest carbon projects, and toimprove bioenergy systems and sustainable forest manage-ment (Henry et al. 2013).
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- 2014
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