Canopy height impacts on the growing season and monthly microclimate in a burned forest of British Columbia, Canada

SM Smith-Tripp, BNI Eskelson, NC Coops… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest canopies can buffer seedlings from extreme climate conditions. Yet, how disturbed
forest canopies influence microclimate is not well understood, despite the important …

Vertical temperature and air humidity gradients in beech and oak forests, and the forest interior climate created by beech

C Leuschner, S Hohnwald, AM Petriţan, H Walentowski - Flora, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests dominated by European beech are characterized by a humid and relatively cool
forest interior climate with low light intensities on the forest floor, which harbors an adapted …

Beyond the role of climate and soil conditions: living and dead trees matter for soil biodiversity in mountain forests

L Leclerc, I Calderón-Sanou… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
While forests' contributions to people are intimately linked to their soil biodiversity, little is
known about how forest soil biodiversity is structured and influenced by forest …

Plant‐Wearable Sensors for Intelligent Forestry Monitoring

Y Li, H Xu, C Han, Y Bai, Y Wang, H Yu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible plant‐wearable sensors show great potential for precise and intelligent monitoring
of real‐time physical and chemical signals in forestry seedlings to optimize their growth …

Using airborne laser scanning to characterize land-use systems in a tropical landscape based on vegetation structural metrics

N Camarretta, M Ehbrecht, D Seidel, A Wenzel… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many Indonesian forests have been cleared and replaced by fast-growing cash crops (eg,
oil palm and rubber plantations), altering the vegetation structure of entire regions. Complex …

The influence of microhabitat factors on the regeneration and species composition of understory woody plants in Pinus tabuliformis plantations on the Loess Plateau

Z Wang, L Jiang, J Gao, S Qing, C Pan, Y Wu… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) is one of the main tree species for water and soil
conservation on the Loess Plateau. However, most of these plantations face a series of …

Initial understory response to experimental silvicultural treatments in a temperate oak-dominated forest

F Tinya, B Kovács, A Prättälä, P Farkas… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In recent decades, alternative management techniques integrating conservation concerns
into industrial forestry have become increasingly widespread. In order to compare the effects …

[HTML][HTML] Management intensity and landscape configuration affect the potential for woody plant regeneration in coffee agroforestry

IA Koelemeijer, AJM Tack, B Zewdie… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the current deforestation rates in tropical ecosystems, optimizing biodiversity in
managed systems has become fundamental for conservation. Agroforestry has been …

A more accurate approach to estimate the C-factor of RUSLE by coupling stratified vegetation cover index in southern China

G Guo, Y Pan, J Kuai, Q Dai, Y Zhu, Y Xu, X Jia… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Timely and accurate monitoring and forecasting of the cover and management factor (C-
factor) is critical for soil erosion assessment at the national or regional scale. The stratified …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term dynamics of structural complexity in differently managed and unmanaged European beech forests

K Willim, C Ammer, D Seidel, P Annighöfer… - Trees, Forests and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamics of forest structure influence forest ecosystem functions and are modified by
forest management and natural disturbances. Here, we quantified the dynamics of stand …