Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

E. Veenendaal , M. Torello-Raventos , T. Feldpausch , T. Domingues , F. Gerard (1) , F. Schrodt , G. Saiz (2) , C. Quesada , G. Djagbletey , A. Ford , J. Kemp , B. Marimon , B. Marimon-Junior , E. Lenza , J. Ratter , L. Maracahipes , D. Sasaki , B. Sonké (3) , L. Zapfack , D. Villarroel , M. Schwarz , F. Yoko Ishida , M. Gilpin (4) , G. Nardoto , K. Affum-Baffoe , L. Arroyo (5) , K. Bloomfield , G. Ceca , H. Compaore , K. Davies , A. Diallo (6) , N. Fyllas , Jacques Gignoux (7) , F. Hien , M. Johnson , Éric Mougin (8) , Pierre Hiernaux (8) , T. Killeen (9) , D. Metcalfe , H. Miranda (10) , M. Steininger , K. Sykora , M. Bird , J. Grace (11) , S. Lewis , O. Phillips , J. Lloyd (12)

1 BEF - Unité de recherche Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers
2 Chercheur indépendant
3 Laboratoire de Botanique systématique et d'Ecologie [ENS Yaoudé]
4 School of Geography, Earth and Biosphere Institute
5 Museo Noel Kempff Mercado
6 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
7 Laboratoire Ecologie et évolution
8 CESBIO - Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère
9 Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
10 Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg
11 Institute of Ecology and Resource Management
12 Earth and Biosphere Institute

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Ecology, environment; Ecosystems; Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Continental interfaces, environment; Computer Science [cs]; Modeling and Simulation; Computer Science [cs]; Computational Complexity [cs.CC]

E. Veenendaal, M. Torello-Raventos, T. Feldpausch, T. Domingues, F. Gerard, et al.. Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?. Biogeosciences, 2015, 12 (10), pp.2927-2951. ⟨10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015⟩. ⟨hal-02456318⟩