INTRODUCTION The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR; the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis …
Silviculture to maintain old-growth forest attributes appears to be an oxymoron since the late developmental phases of forest dynamics, described by the term old-growth, represent …
Z Hao, J Zhang, B Song, J Ye, B Li - Forest ecology and management, 2007 - Elsevier
A 25-ha broad-leaved Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) mixed forest plot was established on Changbai Mountain, PR China, in 2004 in order to gain insights into the processes driving …
Adaptive single tree detection methods using airborne laser scanning (ALS) data were investigated and validated on 40 large plots sampled from a structurally heterogeneous …
ZH Zhang, G Hu, JD Zhu, DH Luo, J Ni - Ecological research, 2010 - Springer
Spatial patterns and interspecific associations of plant species in forests are important for revealing how species interact with each other and with the environment, and hence have …
Spatial patterns of trees are important structural characteristics that can provide insights into forest dynamics and may be related to the development stages of forests. The spatial …
Forest ecosystems include a great variety of communities of organisms interacting with their physical environment: multi-aged natural forests, even-aged monocultures, and secondary …
H Muhamed, B Touzard, Y Le Bagousse-Pinguet… - Forest Ecology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Although forest managers are aware of the need to adapt forest management to climate change, this task is still challenging due to the difficulty for predicting local species and …