PlotonClosingGapTropical.pdf

Ploton, Pierre; Barbier, Nicolas; Takoudjou Momo, Stéphane; Réjou-Méchain, Maxime; Boyemba Bosela, Faustin; Chuyong, Georges; Dauby, Gilles; Droissart, Vincent; Fayolle, Adeline; Goodman, Rosa Calisto; Henry, Matieu; Kamdem, Narcisse Guy; Mukirania, John Katembo; Kenfack, David; Libalah, Moses; Ngomanda, Alfred; Rossi, Vivien; Sonké, Bonaventure; Texier, Nicolas; Thomas, Duncan; Zebaze, Donatien; Couteron, Pierre; Berger, Uta; Pélissier, Raphaël

Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/pv63g4337

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Creator	Ploton, Pierre Barbier, Nicolas Takoudjou Momo, Stéphane Réjou-Méchain, Maxime Boyemba Bosela, Faustin Chuyong, Georges Dauby, Gilles Droissart, Vincent Fayolle, Adeline Goodman, Rosa Calisto Henry, Matieu Kamdem, Narcisse Guy Mukirania, John Katembo Kenfack, David Libalah, Moses Ngomanda, Alfred Rossi, Vivien Sonké, Bonaventure Texier, Nicolas Thomas, Duncan Zebaze, Donatien Couteron, Pierre Berger, Uta Pélissier, Raphaël
Abstract	Accurately monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks is a challenge that remains outstanding. Allometric models that consider tree diameter, height and wood density as predictors are currently used in most tropical forest carbon studies. In particular, a pantropical biomass model has been widely used for approximately a decade, and its most recent version will certainly constitute a reference model in the coming years. However, this reference model shows a systematic bias towards the largest trees. Because large trees are key drivers of forest carbon stocks and dynamics, understanding the origin and the consequences of this bias is of utmost concern. In this study, we compiled a unique tree mass data set of 673 trees destructively sampled in five tropical countries (101 trees > 100 cm in diameter) and an original data set of 130 forest plots (1 ha) from central Africa to quantify the prediction error of biomass allometric models at the individual and plot levels when explicitly taking crown mass variations into account or not doing so. We first showed that the proportion of crown to total tree aboveground biomass is highly variable among trees, ranging from 3 to 88 %. This proportion was constant on average for trees < 10 Mg (mean of 34 %) but, above this threshold, increased sharply with tree mass and exceeded 50 % on average for trees ≥  45 Mg. This increase coincided with a progressive deviation between the pantropical biomass model estimations and actual tree mass. Taking a crown mass proxy into account in a newly developed model consistently removed the bias observed for large trees (> 1 Mg) and reduced the range of plot-level error (in %) from [−23; 16] to [0; 10]. The disproportionally higher allocation of large trees to crown mass may thus explain the bias observed recently in the reference pantropical model. This bias leads to far-from-negligible, but often overlooked, systematic errors at the plot level and may be easily corrected by taking a crown mass proxy for the largest trees in a stand into account, thus suggesting that the accuracy of forest carbon estimates can be significantly improved at a minimal cost.
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