In the face of the growing challenges brought about by human activities, effective planning
and decision-making in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, restoration, and …

NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a spaceborne lidar mission
which will produce near global (51.6° S to 51.6° N) maps of forest structure and above …

Deforestation is the primary driver of carbon losses in tropical forests, but it does not operate
alone. Forest fragmentation, a resulting feature of the deforestation process, promotes …

Methods for accurately measuring biophysical parameters are a key component for
quantitative evaluation regarding to various forest applications. Conventional in situ …

Deforestation rates have declined in the Brazilian Amazon since 2005, yet degradation from
logging, fire, and fragmentation has continued in frontier forests. In this study we quantified …

Topography affects abiotic conditions which can influence the structure, function and
dynamics of ecological communities. An increasing number of studies have demonstrated …

Selective logging, fragmentation, and understory fires directly degrade forest structure and
composition. However, studies addressing the effects of forest degradation on carbon, water …

Remote sensing (RS) studies aiming at map** forest biomass typically rely on ground-
based estimates of biomass for calibration or validation. Whatever the biophysical variable …

Ambitious pledges to restore over 400 million hectares of degraded lands by 2030 have
been made by several countries within the Global Partnership for Forest Landscape …

Forests display tremendous structural diversity, sha** carbon cycling, microclimates and
terrestrial habitats. An important tool for forest structure assessments are canopy height …