McArthur's foliage height diversity (FHD) has been the gold standard in the determination of
structural complexity of forests characterized by LiDAR vertical height profiles. It is based on …

With ongoing climate change the monitoring of tree diversity has become very important for
avoiding or at least decelerating the loss of biodiversity and for maintaining forest ecosystem …

We establish a functional central limit theorem for the empirical Ripley's K-function of Gibbs
point processes and point processes with fast decay of correlations. Our theorem greatly …

There is considerable interest in identifying and locating natural forests as accurately as
possible, because they are deemed essential in preventing biodiversity loss. In the boreal …

Forests are under pressure and going through rapid changes. However, current inventorying
and monitoring (IM) programs are often either disjointed, too narrow in their scope and/or do …

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) assisted basal area larger than mean (BALM) estimation
measures the cohort balance in forests and provides adequate opportunities to describe …

An area-based approach (ABA) is the most common method used to predict forest attributes
with airborne laser scanning (ALS) data. Individual-tree detection (ITD) offers an alternative …

Tradeoffs occur when deciding between improving forest inventory precision by increasing
sample size or by augmenting cluster plot design factors like size or subplot separation …

Forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services and information requirements on forests
have grown considerably. Nevertheless, collecting information in the forest is expensive and …

Stand structure is an important feature reflecting the status of forests. Here, four typical
secondary forests in the Greater Khingan Mountains are examined. Five random plots were …