Biotic factors contribute more to aboveground biomass across scales

The aboveground biomass of vegetation is significant to the global carbon cycle and climate change mitigation. Both biotic factors, such as forest structure attributes, community-weighted mean of traits, and functional diversity, and abiotic factors, such as topography and soil properties, can impact this biomass, either directly or indirectly, with these effects varying according to the spatial scale of the data collected.