Ecological Archives A022-035-A3

Vieilledent G., R. Vaudry, S. F. D. Andriamanohisoa, O. S. Rakotonarivo, H. Z. Randrianasolo, H. N. Razafindrabe, C. Bidaud Rakotoarivony, J. Ebeling, and M. Rasamoelina. 2012. A universal approach to estimate biomass and carbon stock in tropical forests using generic allometric models. Ecological Applications 22:572–583.

APPENDIX C (TABLE C1). Number of destructively sampled trees per country used to develop generic biomass allometric models. Chave et al. (2005) indicates the number of trees per country used to develop their pan-tropical generic allometric model, which does not include any data from Africa. The mean number of trees sampled per km2 of tropical forest in Madagascar (3.75 trees/km-2) is significantly higher than in Chave et al. (2005) (0.023 tree/km-2). Forest area for each country is based on the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FAO, 2005).

Country Cut
trees
Area
(1000 km2)
Forest area
(1000 km2)
Forest
area (%)
Trees by km2
of forest
Australia 133 7692 1636.78 21 0.08
Brazil 643 8515 4776.98 56 0.13
Cambodia 72 181 104.44 58 0.69
Colombia 52 1142 607.28 53 0.09
Costa Rica 96 51 23.91 47 4.02
French Guiana 392 84 80.63 96 4.86
India 211 3287 677.01 21 0.31
Jamaica 86 11 3.39 31 25.37
Indonesia 121 1904 884.95 46 0.14
Venezuela 92 912 477.13 52 0.19
Malaysia 139 331 208.9 63 0.67
Guadeloupe 55 2 0.8 40 68.75
Papua New-Guinea 42 462 294.37 64 0.14
Porto-Rico 30 9 4.08 45 7.35
Mexico 248 1964 642.38 33 0.39
Total 2412 26547 10423.03 39 0.23
Madagascar 481 587 128.38 22 3.75

LITERATURE CITED

Chave, J., C. Andalo, S. Brown, M. A. Cairns, J. Q. Chambers, D. Eamus, H. Folster, F. Fromard, N. Higuchi, T. Kira, J. P. Lescure, B. W. Nelson, H. Ogawa, H. Puig, B. Riera, and T. Yamakura. 2005. Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests. Oecologia 145:87–99.

FAO, 2005. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005. Technical report, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.


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