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ArticleNature communications2026

Net carbon losses in Central African forests revealed by high-resolution biomass change maps.

Liang Wan, Philippe Ciais, Aurélien de Truchis, Yidi Xu, Martin Brandt, Jérôme Chave, Clément Bourgoin, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jean-François Bastin, Wei Li and 8 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Liang WanLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. liang.wan@lsce.ipsl.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-6808
Philippe CiaisLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-4943
Aurélien de TruchisKayrros SAS, Paris, France.
Yidi XuLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1528-4256
Martin BrandtDepartment of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9531-1239
Jérôme ChaveCRBE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Toulouse, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-1347
Clément BourgoinEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4923-3035
Jean-Pierre WigneronISPA, UMR 1391 INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, Villenave d'Ornon, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5345-3618
Jean-François BastinTERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-7247
Wei LiDepartment of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2543-2558
Youngryel RyuDepartment of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-2479
Shidong LiuState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6320-0161
David PurnellLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Ibrahim FayadLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Le Bienfaiteur SagangInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8778-3121
Arthur Vander LindenTERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium.
Timothée BesisaTERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium.
Pierre PlotonAMAP, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8800-3593

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dense humid forests in Central Africa hold vast biomass carbon stocks but are increasingly affected by small-scale disturbances that are difficult to detect with current satellite observations. Here, we generate 10 m canopy height maps for 2019-2022 using deep learning with spaceborne lidar and Sentinel-1/-2 imagery, and derive aboveground biomass changes at 30 m resolution. The maps reveal widespread small disturbance patches, 87% smaller than 1 ha. These account for 48% of biomass carbon gains in regrowing forests and 37% of carbon losses from deforestation. We estimate a net forest carbon loss of -58 ± 14 Tg C yr

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