Review of Methods for the Monitoring of Biomass and Vegetal Carbon in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

The quantification of vegetal biomass is the key to know the carbon that forest ecosystems store, and therefore, its capacity to mitigate climatic change. There is a variety of methods to estimate biomass, many with small variations, such as size and shape of sampling units, inclusion or not of any...

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Main Author: William Fonseca
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2017-06-01
Series:Ciencias Ambientales
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ambientales/article/view/9481