A critique of general allometry-inspired models for estimating forest carbon density from airborne LiDAR

• Rebecca A. Spriggs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Spriggs, David A. Coomes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ras212@cam.ac.uk (RAS); dac18@cam.ac.uk (DAC)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Mark C. Vanderwel,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3946-1149

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• Trevor A. Jones,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Forest Research and Monitoring Section, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

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• John P. Caspersen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• David A. Coomes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Spriggs, David A. Coomes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ras212@cam.ac.uk (RAS); dac18@cam.ac.uk (DAC)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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