“…In a non-agricultural context, estimation of AGB gives important insight into ecosystem structure and function. Forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves, dryland ecosystems and other vegetated areas provide important services for humans, such as carbon sequestration, oxygen production and biofuel, 2 of 46 as well as habitat for plant and animal species [9,[28][29][30]. Many ecosystems are also at increasing risk from climate change and land-use conversion and it is valuable to be able to quantify AGB at appropriate spatial and temporal scales and monitor it over time to assess the impacts of these changes on the global carbon cycle and to understand the resulting effects on ecosystem resilience and health [6,7,31,32] AGB is most accurately measured by collecting and weighing samples of vegetation [3,19,33] but this method is time-consuming, labor-intensive and destructive [16,34,35].…”