Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

Using spatial statistics to identify emerging hot spots of forest loss

(2017) Nancy L Harris et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

(2016) Daniel J. Zarin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

(2015) A Tyukavina et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Indirect and direct estimation of forest biomass change using forest inventory and airborne laser scanning data

(2015) Ronald E. McRoberts et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges

(2015) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   Nature Communications

A role for tropical forests in stabilizing atmospheric CO2

(2015) R. A. Houghton et al.   Nature Climate Change

Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

(2015) Yi Y. Liu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Annual Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Amazon Basin between 2000 and 2010

(2015) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   PLoS One

Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

(2014) Frédéric Achard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

(2014) Erika Berenguer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Measurements of Forest Biomass Change Using P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Backscatter

(2014) Gustaf Sandberg et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

(2014) Liming Zhou et al.   NATURE

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of increasing CO2on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) David Schimel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

(2014) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

(2013) A Tyukavina et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

(2013) Martin Thurner et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Elevated rates of gold mining in the Amazon revealed through high-resolution monitoring

(2013) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping biomass change after forest disturbance: Applying LiDAR footprint-derived models at key map scales

(2013) Wenli Huang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Monitoring coniferous forest biomass change using a Landsat trajectory-based approach

(2013) Magdalena Main-Knorn et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Improving pantropical forest carbon maps with airborne LiDAR sampling

(2013) Alessandro Baccini et al.   Carbon Management

Characterization of Terra and Aqua MODIS VIS, NIR, and SWIR Spectral Bands' Calibration Stability

(2012) Aisheng Wu et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Model-assisted estimation of change in forest biomass over an 11year period in a sample survey supported by airborne LiDAR: A case study with post-stratification to provide “activity data”

(2012) Erik Næsset et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

(2012) N. L. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

(2012) A. Baccini et al.   Nature Climate Change

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Habitat fragmentation and the desiccation of forest canopies: A case study from eastern Amazonia

(2010) Gaël Briant et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Estimation of tropical forest height and biomass dynamics using lidar remote sensing at La Selva, Costa Rica

(2010) R. O. Dubayah et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

(2010) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

CO2 emissions from forest loss

(2009) G. R. van der Werf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Development of an approach for generation of temporally complete daily nadir MODIS reflectance time series

(2009) Junchang Ju et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE