The carbon debt from Amazon forest degradation: integrating airborne lidar, field measurements, and an ecosystem demography model.

Marcos Longo1, Michael Maier Keller2,3, Maiza Nara dos-Santos4, Marcos Augusto Scaranello Sr4, Ekena Rangel Pinagé5, Veronika Leitold6 and Douglas C Morton7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (3)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (4)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States