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Environmental control of natural gap size distribution in tropical forests

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Goulamoussene Y., Bedeau C., Descroix L., Linguet L., Herault B.
2016

Natural disturbances are the dominant form of forest regeneration and dynamics in unmanaged tropical forests. Monitoring the size distribution of treefall gaps is important to better understand and predict the carbon budget in response to land use and other global changes. In this study, we model the size frequency distribution of natural canopy gaps with a discrete power law distribution. We use ...

Foresterie - Considérations générales; Ecologie végétale; Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières; Météorologie et climatologie; Méthodes mathématiques et statistiques

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