Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

Danaë M A Rozendaal^51,1,2,3,4, Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Veronique De Sy¹, Valerio Avitabile⁵, Sarah Carter¹, C Y Adou Yao⁶, Esteban Alvarez-Davila^7,8, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira^9,10, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami¹¹, Luzmila Arroyo¹², Benjamin Barca¹³, Timothy R Baker¹⁴, Luca Birigazzi¹⁵, Frans Bongers², Anne Branthomme¹⁶, Roel J W Brienen¹⁴, João M B Carreiras¹⁷, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti^18,19, Susan C Cook-Patton²⁰, Mathieu Decuyper^1,21, Ben DeVries²², Andres B Espejo²³, Ted R Feldpausch²⁴, Julian Fox¹⁶, Javier G P Gamarra¹⁶, Bronson W Griscom²⁵, Nancy Harris²⁶, Bruno Hérault^27,28,29, Eurídice N Honorio Coronado³⁰, Inge Jonckheere¹⁶, Eric Konan³¹, Sara M Leavitt²⁰, Simon L Lewis^14,32, Jeremy A Lindsell^33,34, Justin Kassi N'Dja³⁵, Anny Estelle N'Guessan³⁵, Beatriz Marimon³⁶, Edward T A Mitchard³⁷, Abel Monteagudo^38,39, Alexandra Morel⁴⁰, Anssi Pekkarinen¹⁶, Oliver L Phillips¹⁴, Lourens Poorter², Lan Qie⁴¹, Ervan Rutishauser¹⁰, Casey M Ryan³⁷, Maurizio Santoro⁴², Dos Santos Silayo⁴³, Plinio Sist²⁷, J W Ferry Slik⁴⁴, Bonaventure Sonké⁴⁵, Martin J P Sullivan¹⁴, Gaia Vaglio Laurin⁴⁶, Emilio Vilanova⁴⁷, Maria M H Wang⁴⁸, Eliakimu Zahabu⁴⁹ and Martin Herold^1,50

Published 10 January 2022 • © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 17, Number 1 Citation Danaë M A Rozendaal et al 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. 17 014047 DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac45b3