Mesoscale exploration and conservation of tropical canopies in a changing climate

Gregory P. Asner

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7161-5_18

Mesoscale exploration and conservation of tropical canopies in a changing climate

Gregory P. Asner

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Abstract

Tropical forests harbor the majority of species found on land, yet we still know very little about the canopies that create habitat required for a vast array of flora and fauna. Tropical canopies remain a biological frontier, calling us to explore them in hopes of better understanding their composition, structure and function, and how they came to be. Yet we undertake this challenge at a time of very rapid change for tropical canopies, in terms of both their geographic extent and their condition. The global tropical forest landscape is changing at such a rate and with such complexity; the urgency of mapping and reporting on them has reached an all-time high.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Treetops at Risk
Subtitle of host publication	Challenges of Global Canopy Ecology and Conservation
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	177-193
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781461471615
ISBN (Print)	9781461471608
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7161-5_18
State	Published - Jan 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Biodiversity
Biomass
Carbon
Carnegie airborne observatory
Deforestation
Forest degradation
LiDAR
Rainforest
Tropical forest

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Environmental Science

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