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Tightening up on tree carbon estimates

  • Goodman R
  • Phillips O
  • Baker T
Nature (2012) 491(7425) 527-527
DOI: 10.1038/491527b
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[1st paragraph] During a recent fieldwork campaign with a logging operation in the southwestern Amazon, we weighed a single shihuahuaco tree (Dipteryx micrantha) at 76.1 tonnes dry mass, making it the most massive tropical tree ever recorded. Yet its diameter (158 centimetres) and its height (44 metres) were unexceptional. Marked variations in the biomass and species identity of large trees have significant implications for carbon accounting and the future of tropical forests.

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Goodman, R. C., Phillips, O. L., & Baker, T. R. (2012). Tightening up on tree carbon estimates. Nature, 491(7425), 527–527. https://doi.org/10.1038/491527b

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