Recent Progress in Measuring and Modeling Patterns of Biomass and Soil Carbon Pools Across the Amazon Basin
Christopher
Potter, NASA Ames Research Center, cpotter@mail.arc.nasa.gov
(Presenting)
Yadvinder
Singh
Malhi, University of Edinburgh, ymalhi@ed.ac.uk
Ever more detailed representations of aboveground biomass and soil carbon pools have been developed during the LBA project. Environmental controls such as regional climate, land cover history, secondary forest regrowth, and soil fertility are now being taken into account in regional inventory studies. This paper will review the evolution of measurement-extrapolation approaches, remote sensing, and simulation modeling techniques for biomass and soil carbon pools, which together help constrain regional carbon budgets and enhance in our understanding of uncertainty at the regional level.