Amazon forests conjure visions of lush canopies, not giant branches crashing to the ground. But according to a recent study, published in Environmental Research Letters, dead branches frequently fall from the tops of trees in the Amazon, releasing a startling amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Falling branches are a massive part of the carbon fluxes of Amazon rainforests
LiDAR-assisted forest carbon monitoring is simplified by a general modeling approach
Regional and global carbon maps are greatly improved with airborne LiDAR
Uncertainties in the spatial distribution of biomass causes uncertainty for REDD+ activities
Carbon stocks mapped in huge region of Colombian Amazon using airborne LiDAR
New universal LiDAR approach reported for mapping carbon in tropical forests
