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Forest biomass in the Amazon in 2005. Combining the FORMIND forest model with data from the ICESat satellite made it possible to create a detailed biomass map. According to this map, 76 billion tonnes of carbon is stored in the Amazon forest. The red colouring shows areas with a particularly large amount of biomass.

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Rödig et al., Global Ecol Biogeogr. 2017

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