Challenges for measuring and modeling carbon cycling in degraded tropical forests: Examples from the Brazilian Amazon
Michael Maier Keller1, Marcos Longo2, Douglas C Morton3, Veronika Leitold3, Ekena Rangel Pinagé4, Maiza Nara dos-Santos5 and Marcos Augusto Scaranello Sr6, (1)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil