Lianas are a key growth form in tropical forests. They are believed to be strong competitors for water, thanks to their presumed efficient vascular systems. However, despite being a large polyphyletic group, they are currently often considered as a functionally homogeneous entity. In this study, we challenged this assumption by estimating the varia...
Accurately quantifying tree and forest structure is important for monitoring and understanding terrestrial ecosystem functioning in a changing climate. The emergence of laser scanning, such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Laser Scanning (UAV-LS), has advanced accurate and detailed forest structural measurements. TL...
Climate change has the potential to increase surface ozone (O-3) concentrations, known as the "ozone-climate penalty", through changes to atmospheric chemistry, transport and dry deposition. In the tropics, the response of surface O-3 to changing climate is relatively understudied but has important consequences for air pollution and human and ecosy...
Calders, KimVerbeeck, HansBurt, AndrewOrigo, NiallNightingale, JoanneMalhi, YadvinderWilkes, PhilRaumonen, PasiBunce, Robert G. H.Disney, Mathias
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Quantifying climate mitigation benefits of biosphere protection or restoration requires accurate assessment of forest above-ground biomass (AGB). This is usually estimated using tree size-to-mass allometric models calibrated with harvested biomass data.Using three-dimensional laser measurements across the full range of tree size and shape in a typi...
Liu, C.Calders, K.Meunier, F.Gastellu-Etchegorry, J. P.Nightingale, J.Disney, M.Origo, N.Woodgate, W.Verbeeck, H.
This study investigated the implications of different assumptions of 3D forest stand reconstructions for the accuracy and efficiency of radiative transfer (RT) modeling based on two highly detailed 3D stand representations: 3D-explicit and voxel-based. The discrete anisotropic radiative transfer (DART) model was used for RT simulations. The 3D-expl...
Vallicrosa, HelenaSardans, JordiMaspons, JoanZuccarini, PaoloFernández‐Martínez, MarcosBauters, MarijnGoll, Daniel S.Ciais, PhilippeObersteiner, MichaelJanssens, Ivan A.
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Consistent information on the current elemental composition of vegetation at global scale and the variables that determine it is lacking. To fill this gap, we gathered a total of 30 912 georeferenced records on woody plants foliar concentrations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) from published databases, and produced global maps of ...
Zuleta, DanielKrishna Moorthy Parvathi, SruthiArellano, GabrielVerbeeck, HansDavies, Stuart J.
Tree volume equations including branches are scarce in forestry literature, especially in diverse tropical forests, where the variability in tree shapes hampers the development of overall volume descriptions. We present species-composite cumulative volume profile models that describe the volume contained up to a given height in the trunks and crown...
