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Title: Estimation of biomass and carbon stocks: The case of the Atlantic Forest
Authors: Vieira, Simone Aparecida
Alves, Luciana Ferreira
Aidar, Marcos Pereira Marinho
Araújo, Luciana Spinelli
Baker, Timothy R.
Batista, João Luís Ferreira
Campos, Mariana C.R.
Camargo, Plínio Barbosa de
Chave, Jérôme
Delitti, Welington Bráz Carvalho
Higuchi, Niro
Honorio Coronado, Euridice N.
Joly, Carlos Alfredo
Keller, Michael
Martinelli, Luiz Antônio
Mattos, Eduardo Arcoverde de
Metzker, Thiago
Phillips, Oliver L.
Santos, Flavio A.Maës
Shimabukuro, Mônica Takako
Silveira, Marcos
Trumbore, Susan Elizabeth
Keywords: Chamaedorea Seifrizii
Filicophyta
Issue Date: 2008
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Biota Neotropica
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 8, Número 2, Pags. 21-29
Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to present and discuss the best methods to estimate live above ground biomass in the Atlantic Forest. The methods presented and conclusions are the products of a workshop entitled "Estimation of Biomass and Carbon Stocks: the Case of Atlantic Rain Forest". Aboveground biomass (AGB) in tropical forests is mainly contained in trees. Tree biomass is a function of wood volume, obtained from the diameter and height, architecture and wood density (dry weight per unit volume of fresh wood). It can be quantified by the direct (destructive) or indirect method where the biomass quantification is estimated using mathematical models. The allometric model can be site specific when elaborated to a particular ecosystem or general that can be used in different sites. For the Atlantic Forest, despite the importance of it, there are only two direct measurements of tree biomass, resulting in allometric models specific for this ecosystem. To select one or other of the available models in the literature to estimate AGB it is necessary take into account what is the main question to be answered and the ease with which it is possible to measure the independent variables in the model. Models that present more accurate estimates should be preferred. However, more simple models (those with one independent variable, usually DBH) can be used when the focus is monitoring the variation in carbon storage through the time. Our observations in the Atlantic Forest suggest that pan-tropical relations proposed by Chave et al. (2005) can be confidently used to estimated tree biomass across biomes as long as tree diameter (DBH), height, and wood density are accounted for in the model. In Atlantic Forest, we recommend the quantification of biomass of lianas, bamboo, palms, tree ferns and epiphytes, which are an important component in this ecosystem. This paper is an outcome of the workshop entitled "Estimation of Biomass and Carbon Stocks: the Case of Atlantic Rain Forest", that was conducted at Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, between 4 and 8 December 2006 as part of the Brazilian project "Ombrophylus Dense Forest floristic composition, structure and function at the Núcleos Picinguaba and Santa Virginia of the Serra do Mar State Park", BIOTA Gradiente.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1590/S1676-06032008000200001
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