High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon
Carnegie Institution for Science · World Wildlife Fund · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Efforts to mitigate climate change through the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depend on mapping and monitoring of tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions over large geographic areas. With a new integrated use of satellite imaging, airborne light detection and ranging, and field plots, we mapped aboveground carbon stocks and emissions at 0.1-ha resolution over 4.3 million ha of the Peruvian Amazon, an area twice that of all forests in Costa Rica, to reveal the determinants of forest carbon density and to demonstrate the feasibility of mapping carbon emissions for REDD. We discovered previously unknown variation in carbon storage at multiple scales based on geologic substrate and…
Citation impact
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- 43.96
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13Topics & keywords
- Deforestation (computer science)
- Greenhouse gas
- Amazon rainforest
- Environmental science
- Carbon sequestration
- Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
- Carbon fibers
- Climate change
- Life in Land