Aboveground biomass and carbon of the highly diverse Atlantic Forest in Brazil: comparison of alternative individual tree modeling and prediction strategies

Autor: Michel Anderson Almeida Colmanetti, Aaron Weiskittel, Luiz Mauro Barbosa, Regina Tomoko Shirasuna, Fernando Cirilo de Lima, Paulo Roberto Torres Ortiz, Eduardo Luis Martins Catharino, Tiago Cavalheiro Barbosa, Hilton Thadeu Zarate do Couto
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Carbon Management, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 383-397 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1758-3004
1758-3012
17583004
DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2018.1503040
Popis: The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is a biologically and structurally diverse biome which covers a large area; however, few tree-level biomass models exist for this region. The objective of this study was to evaluate alternative individual tree biomass models for the Atlantic Forest using contrasting prediction approaches, and evaluate their implications for stand-level biomass and carbon. The data comprised 106 destructively sampled trees (dbh; 5.4 – 68.5 cm) from the 16 most abundant species. Different approaches, namely species-specific, functional-trait based, generalized, and previously developed equations, as well as alternative model forms using differing variables including diameter at breast height (dbh), wood specific gravity (wsg), and height to crown base (hcb) were examined. Species-specific models were developed using both ordinary least squares and linear mixed effects with species as a random effect. The various approaches resulted in statistically different estimates of biomass and carbon at both the individual tree- and stand-levels. Compared to a generalized biomass equation for Pan-tropical forests, our results indicate differences of over 46% and 52% for biomass and carbon, respectively. Overall, if no species-specific model is available, we suggest the functional plant trait based on dbh and wsg.
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