ReviewSurveys in geophysics2019
Species Matter: Wood Density Influences Tropical Forest Biomass at Multiple Scales.
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- Woody plant species diversity, vegetation structure, and regeneration status of Modi-Geyi Forest in Andracha District, Southwest Ethiopia.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Standard and non-standard measurements of wood density: how big is the breach?Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests.Nature communications · 2025Article
- XyloDensMap: a georeferenced dataset for the wood density of 110,000 trees from 156 European species in France.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Wood density can best predict carbon stock in the forest aboveground biomass following restoration in a post open limestone mining in a tropical region.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Evolutionary history shapes variation of wood density of tree species across the world.Plant diversity · 2024Article
- Dataset about Mexico's forest diversity: Site locations of tree species, wood densities, and geographic database of forest-vegetation provinces.Data in brief · 2024Article
- Sensing Forests Directly: The Power of Permanent Plots.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications.Global change biology · 2023Review
- Ecological legacies of past human activities in Amazonian forests.The New phytologist · 2021Review
- New insights into large tropical tree mass and structure from direct harvest and terrestrial lidar.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Big trees drive forest structure patterns across a lowland Amazon regrowth gradient.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The mass of carbon contained in trees is governed by the volume and density of their wood. This represents a challenge to most remote sensing technologies, which typically detect surface structure and parameters related to wood volume but not to its density. Since wood density is largely determined by taxonomic identity this challenge is greatest in tropical forests where there are tens of thousands of tree species. Here, using pan-tropical literature and new analyses in Amazonia with plots with reliable identifications we assess the impact that species-related variation in wood density has on biomass estimates of mature tropical forests. We find impacts of species on forest biomass due to wood density at all scales from the individual tree up to the whole biome: variation in tree species composition regulates how much carbon forests can store. Even local differences in composition can cause variation in forest biomass and carbon density of 20% between subtly different local forest types, while additional large-scale floristic variation leads to variation in mean wood density of 10-30% across Amazonia and the tropics. Further, because species composition varies at all scales and even vertically within a stand, our analysis shows that bias and uncertainty always result if individual identity is ignored. Since sufficient inventory-based evidence based on botanical identification now exists to show that species composition matters biome-wide for biomass, we here assemble and provide mean basal-area-weighted wood density values for different forests across the lowand tropical biome. These range widely, from 0.467 to 0.728 g cm
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