The structure, distribution, and biomass of the world's forests

Y Pan, RA Birdsey, OL Phillips… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. We review the environmental
factors controlling their structure and global distribution and evaluate their current and future …

An A mazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, PM Fearnside… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

L Duncanson, JR Kellner, J Armston, R Dubayah… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

L Rowland, ACL da Costa, DR Galbraith, RS Oliveira… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Drought threatens tropical rainforests over seasonal to decadal timescales,,,, but the drivers
of tree mortality following drought remain poorly understood,. It has been suggested that …