The project is the first comprehensive estimate of tree carbon density in Africa's Sahel, Saharan, and Sudanian zones.
, marked almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa's dryland to determine the quantity of carbon outside the dense tropical forests of the continent.
"Our team gathered and analyzed carbon data down to the individual tree level across the vast semi-arid regions of Africa or elsewhere – something that had previously been done only on small, local scales," said Compton Tucker, lead scientist on the project and an Earth scientist atin Greenbelt, Maryland. Past satellite-based estimates of tree carbon in Africa's drylands often mistook shrubs and grasses for trees. "That led to over-predictions of the carbon there.
. This information is important for ecological protection, carbon accounting, climate mitigation, and restoration efforts of dryland ecosystems
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