Improved aboveground biomass estimation and regional assessment with aerial lidar in California's subalpine forests.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the impacts of climate change on forest aboveground biomass is a high priority for land managers. High elevation subalpine forests provide many important ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, and are vulnerable to climate change, which has altered forest structure and disturbance regimes. Although large, regional studies have advanced aboveground biomass mapping with satellite data, typically using a general approach broadly calibrated or trained with available field data, it is unclear how well these models work in less prevalent and highly heterogeneous forest types such as the subalpine. Monitoring biomass using methods that model uncertainty at multiple scales is critical to ensure that local relationships between biomass and input variabl

SUBMITTER: Winsemius S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662458 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature