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Satellite data reveal tropical forests respond differently to climate across continents
Satellite images can be used to estimate how much carbon forests store as aboveground biomass (AGB) and how biomass varies in different forests.
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Researchers analyzed 16 million 2020 NASA‑GEDI satellite biomass estimates from Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asian forests and found that temperature, aridity, soil nutrients and other environmental factors influence forest carbon storage differently across continents. The work, published in Nature, involved scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the University of Maryland, NASA and a Brazilian university. Co‑author Helene Muller‑Landau highlighted that the study definitively shows distinct climate responses among tropical forests on different continents.
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