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Comment
. 2013 Mar 5;110(10):3711-2.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300396110. Epub 2013 Feb 20.

Geography of forest disturbance

Gregory P Asner  1
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Geography of forest disturbance

Gregory P Asner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Forest disturbance is expressed as continuum of canopy gap sizes and temporal frequencies, ranging from small single-branch and tree-scale gaps like the one shown on the far left, to massive blowdowns caused by powerful storm events, like the one to the far right. These images were taken using Light Detection and Ranging from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, which show the height and spatial arrangement of tree crowns in four forests of the western Amazon. Tall canopies are white and forest gaps are black.
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