Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
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Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.
A previous study by Phillips et al. of changes in the biomass of permanent sample plots in Amazonian forests was used to infer the presence of a regional carbon sink. However, these results generated a vigorous debate about sampling and methodological issues. Therefore we present a new analysis of biomass change in old-growth Amazonian forest plots using updated inventory data. We find that acr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1422