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Title: Lack of intermediate-scale disturbance data prevents robust extrapolation of plot-level tree mortality rates for old-growth tropical forests
Authors: Chambers, Jeffrey Quintin
Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I.
Hurtt, George C.
Marra, Daniel Magnabosco
Higuchi, Niro
Keywords: Accumulation Rate
Biomass
Environmental Disturbance
Gap Dynamics
Mortality
Old-growth Forest
Power Law
Soil Carbon
Tropical Forest
Amazonia
South America
Issue Date: 2009
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Ecology Letters
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 12, Número 12, Pags. E22-E25
Abstract: Lloyd et al. (2009) question the methods, concepts and conclusions of Fisher et al. (2008). We address these assertions, and place our work into a broader context. We demonstrate the veracity of Fisher et al., and further show that lack of data for intermediate-scale tree mortality disturbance events for old-growth tropical forests might prevent robust extrapolation of forest plot biomass accumulation data, and accurate estimates of distribution parameters such as power-law exponents (α). © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01398.x
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