forest productivity
Quantifying the effect of persistent dryer climates on forest productivity and implications for forest planning: a case study in northern Germany
... Other case studies investigate the long-term effect of persistent dryer conditions on forest productivity. Kint et al. (2012) observed a drought-induced growth decline for beech in Belgium since the 1960s. ...
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Fires increase Amazon forest productivity through increases in diffuse radiation
... implying that our estimated enhancement of NPP may be conservative. Biomass burning aerosol may also cause increased dry season length [Bevan et al., 2009], alter patterns of precipitation [Andreae et al., 2004; Tosca et ...
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Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)
... tropical forest carbon fluxes and stand dy- namics has traditionally involved approaches aimed at a bal- ance between simplicity, computational economy, and com- ...tropical forest is performed by a tiny ...
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Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography
... and forest structure in Amazonian ...Trait-based Forest Simulator (TFS)—to explore the roles of climate and plant traits in controlling forest productivity and ...observed forest ...
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Does consideration of water routing affect simulated water and carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems?
... Overall, this study indicated that lateral water flow exerts strong control on the spatial pattern and variability of wa- ter table depth and saturation deficit (e.g., Band et al., 1993), and such effects are more ...
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Biomass and dominance of conservative species drive above-ground biomass productivity in a mediterranean-type forest of Chile
... The soil N and total soil carbon (C) were obtained for each plot taking three sample from 0 to 30 cm in soil depth the year 2012. The C/N ratio was used as a proxy of the nitrogen released by microbial decomposition. ...
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Developing a Forest Management Plan (DFMP) for Gatsibo District in the Eastern Province of Rwanda
... classifies forest productivity into 18 zones but this is generalized into three altitudinal zones; low (less than 1500 m), medium (1500 m - 1900 m) and high (more than 1900 m) (MINIRENA, ...
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Spatiotemporal variations in productivity and water use efficiency across a temperate forest landscape of Northeast China
... natural forest pro- tection and expansion of planted forests, whilst the exist- ing forests are increasingly used for non-timber ecosystem services as alternatives to conventional wood fiber produc- tion, leading ...
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Large-scale forest inventories of the United States and China reveal positive effects of biodiversity on productivity
... slope, forest type, site productivity class, latitude, longitude, and inventory ...of forest type, which was assigned based on the plot location and the forest type map across the contiguous ...
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Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient
... a tree's foliage but also based on its relative position within the canopy. Light availability (I) for each individual in the stand is estimated using the built-in canopy structure algorithm of TFS (Fyllas et al. 2014), ...
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Net primary productivity of forest stands in New Hampshire estimated from Landsat and MODIS satellite data
... to forest productivity models is the relatively low number of cloud-free scenes that can be collected over the course of a growing season in most tem- perate and humid climate ...Mixed forest classes ...
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Ecosystem management in paludified boreal forests: enhancing wood production, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration at the landscape level
... of forest ecosys- tems, fire also has important effects on understory vegeta- tion and ...and forest productivity (Lecomte et ...to forest ecology studies than percent SOL consumed because it ...
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Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests
... the productivity (negative SI ...natural forest stands in New Zealand, found an AWP increase of between 5 and 20 ◦ C −1 for forests, assuming no change in forest ...
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Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused?
... declining forest health and rising wildfire risk could, in the near future, attain the salience of sea level rise in vulnerable coastal regions, an adaptive communication strategy might employ both cultural and ...
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Large-tree removal in a mixed-conifer forest halves productivity and increases white fir
... forest’s productivity and species composition, but no previous studies in California had evaluated this ...measured productivity and canopy species composition shifts following the repeated removal of large ...
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Productivity and cost analysis of skidding with Timberjack 450C in forest plantations in Shafaroud watershed, Iran
... skidding productivity is affected by the number of logs per cycle (Abeli 1992; Jourgholami, Maj- nounian 2008; Pir Bavaghar et ...the productivity as it was re- ported in many studies (Kluender et ...
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Effect of log length on productivity and cost of Timberjack 450C skidder in the Hyrcanian forest in Iran
... Although 12 million hectares of the Iranian land is covered with forests, the Hyrcanian forest is the only commercial forest which covers 1.8 million hectares. These forests are often situated in a very ...
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The Global Terrestrial Carbon Stocks, Status of Carbon in Forest and Shrub Land of Nepal, and Relationship between Carbon Stock and Diversity
... Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility ...national forest to community forest user groups (CFUGs) as community managed forests evolved in the late 1970’s through an interaction of multiplicity of ...
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Assessment of Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of Forest Over Nainital District Using Remote Sensing
... primary productivity (NPP) estimation model based on the Landsat-8 data and GIS software can be used to estimate ...of forest inventory data for two multi date (10 th April and 3 rd Oct, 2015) images of ...
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Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient
... © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Fyllas, NM, Bentley, LP, Shenkin, A et al. (17 more authors) (2017) Solar radiation and functional traits explain the ...
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