Nature

Mapping forest aboveground carbon stock of combined stratified sampling and RFRK model with mean annual temperature and precipitation

Forests are the largest terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle 1,2,3,4. In 2020, China announced its goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon ...
Nature

Uncertainty Quantification of Extratropical Forest Biomass in CMIP5 Models over the Northern Hemisphere

Simplified representations of processes influencing forest biomass in Earth system models (ESMs) contribute to large uncertainty in projections. We evaluate forest biomass from eight ESMs outputs ...
Phys.org

Carbon monitoring: Modeling effort helps to quickly and accurately estimate forest biomass

A tree can sequester quite a bit of carbon, and forests can sequester and store quite a bit more, but knowing exactly how much is important for many reasons, from planning and management decisions to ...
Phys.org

Using only genomics and a one-time tree count, a new model can accurately predict a forest's future

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers ...
ProPublica

The (Random) Forests for the Trees: How Our Spillover Model Works

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This year at ProPublica, we’ve paired computer modeling with ...