Forests store large amounts of carbon and need accurate allometric regressions for their estimation. Estimation of biomass is done traditionally through destruction of trees and construction of allometric relationships. Implications linked to destruction makes that in many forest ecosystems true data are lacking, resulting to on site data not available for climate change models and other models… In Africa for instance, the absence of species-specific or mixed-species allometric equations has lead for many decades to broad use of general equations with data not collected locally for estimation of tree biomass and the accounting of the carbon budget. This lack of information has raised many discussions on the accuracy of these data.

 Our research investigates with true data aboveground and belowground biomass and develops models, allometric relationships for estimation of forest biomass, carbon pools and fluxes in all types of ecosystems (Boreal, temperate, subtropical and tropical forests). Allometric relations in forest ecosystems make that forest managers, ecologists can estimate with accuracy the contribution of biomass on climate change.