1. Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics
- Author
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Connie J. Clark, Geertje M. F. van der Heijden, Jianwei Tang, Jean-François Gillet, Gabriella Fredriksson, Serge A. Wich, Asyraf Mansor, Nicole Zweifel, Jean-Louis Doucet, Yadvinder Malhi, Yves Laumonier, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Tran Van Do, Marcos Silveira, Frans Bongers, Lilian Blanc, Murray Collins, Emilio Vilanova, Reuben Nilus, Francesco Rovero, Hannsjoerg Wöll, Johan van Valkenburg, Gary D. Paoli, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo, John R. Poulsen, Eduardo Schmidt Eler, Eizi Suzuki, David Harris, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Emanuel H. Martin, Miguel E. Leal, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Gilles Dauby, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Ming-Gang Zhang, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Hans ter Steege, Kazuki Miyamoto, Douglas Sheil, Runguo Zang, Yi Ding, Meredith L. Bastian, Andrea Permana, Tariq Stévart, Andes Hamuraby Rozak, Krista L. McGuire, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Patrick Boundja, Wilson Roberto Spironelo, J. W. Ferry Slik, Ida Theilade, Olle Forshed, Gilberto Enrique Navarro-Aguilar, Jorcely Barroso, Terry Sunderland, Lourens Poorter, Vincent A. Vos, Atila Alves de Oliveira, Jan Reitsma, Onrizal Onrizal, and Eddy Nurtjahya
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0106 biological sciences ,Global and Planetary Change ,Biomass (ecology) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Ecology ,Amazon rainforest ,Tropics ,Rainforest ,15. Life on land ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Monodominance ,13. Climate action ,Soil water ,Spatial ecology ,Environmental science ,Precipitation ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Aim Large trees (d.b.h. 70 cm) store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, poten- tially leading to declining forest biomass storage. Here we determine the importance of large trees for tropical forest biomass storage and explore which intrinsic (species trait) and extrinsic (environment) variables are associated with the density of large trees and forest biomass at continental and pan-tropical scales. Location Pan-tropical.
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- 2013