Northern Hardwood Forest
Application of phenology to assist in hyperspectral species classification of a northern hardwood forest
... as trunks per Such hectare, aerial By definition, imagery may be tree crown determined through this the which depend of In this thesis, a in the the on on the tree species may be able to[r] ...
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Effects of Whole Tree Harvesting on Species Composition of Tree and Understory Communities in a Northern Hardwood Forest
... a forest that regrows trees slowly or of poor ...of northern hardwoods, we found no indication of short-term decrease in forest productivity on WTH sites when compared with similar CH sites (Roxby ...
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Predicting Stem Windthrow Probability in a Northern Hardwood Forest Using a Wind Intensity Bio Indicator Approach
... Finally, even though we are confident of the model devel- oped in this study, we have recognized that it is incomplete. From our field experiences, we have identified at least two variables that could improve the model ...
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Soil Organic Carbon Content and Quality in Post-Agricultural Northern Hardwood forests
... iii. northern Wisconsin) of northern hardwood forests with different patterns of agriculture abandonment, varying soil types and properties, and differing climates were ...other northern ...
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Brown_unc_0153D_18848.pdf
... We do not want to discount the possibility that thus far, the literature remains relatively naïve about how the trade-off between tree growth and tissue defense plays out in natural forest systems. There are many ...
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Mathematical programming for advanced forest management planning in Fiji : optimising harvest wood allocation in the mixed-hardwood plantations using linear programming model
... USDA Forest Service continued its timber scheduling beyond the current rotation but were restricted as resource interactions could not be modeled ...National Forest Management Act (NRMA) - 1976, were ...
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Forest Vegetation of Hardwood Tree Species along the Mirna River in Istria (Croatia)
... mixed hardwood forests of the Mediterranean area contain a certain number of species from the warmer climate, but also a higher presence of the narrow-leaved ash, European white elm, and some species associated ...
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Endogenous Forest Development Paradigm: Challenging Current Forest Conservation Practices in Ghana
... the northern savanna region can be most effective where there is a paradigm shift of focus—from the current emphasis on Forest Conservation to Forest Management and Development (exclusions to re- ...
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Forest Carbon Effects of Biomass Feedstock Species Selection in Southeastern U.S.
... U.S., hardwood plantations are not economically viable, and thus mainly exist on test sites (Hicks Jr, Conner, Kellison, & Van Lear, ...with hardwood plantations. Hardwood tree species grow ...
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Forest Fires in Northern Canada
... a forest fire cannot be accurately ascertained, even if we could determine correctly the age of the second growth timber, as the new crop does not always start up immediately after the ...full-grown ...
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Effects of Vegetation and Background Noise on the Detection Process in Auditory Avian Point Count Surveys.
... between mixed pine/hardwood forest and deciduous forest. Average estimated detection probabilities varied greatly by factor combination and species, but in general they decreased with the addition of ...
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Feeding ecology of kereru; (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) in podocarp–hardwood forest, Whirinaki Forest Park, New Zealand
... Although kererū are known to feed from many species (n = 138; Higgins & Davies 1996), during this study in Whirinaki Forest Park they exhibited a preference for fruit, and fed on the fruits of a few species ...
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Exploring Factors Influencing Species Natural Regeneration Response Following Harvesting in the Acadian Forests of New Brunswick
... Sugar maple, one of the most desirable tolerant hardwood species in the Acadian Forest Region, responded well, in terms of both Relative Abundance RA and dominance, to a variety of overs[r] ...
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European Union Wood Biomass Demand for Energy Purposes and its Influence on U.S. Southeastern Forest Market and Carbon Storage.
... Current predictions on North America energy sector emphasize increased domestic use of wood energy in both Canada and the US. In spite of increasing domestic utilization of wood energy in these countries, the export ...
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Effects of livestock exclusion on forest trees regeneration (Case study: Ramsar’s district 1 Iran)
... Parcel 23 (with a total area of 96 ha) was selected for study purposes. The study area (Parcel 23) is lo- cated towards the north and north-east. The mini- mum and maximum altitude is 1,100 and 1,600 m a.s.l., ...
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Estimating potential harvestable biomass for bioenergy from sustainably managed private native forests in Southeast Queensland, Australia
... Accurate ground-based estimates of biomass are import- ant for management of forest biomass change and bio- mass products. Previous biomass estimations for native forests in state forests in Queensland (Ngugi et ...
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GPS vs DEM Derived Elevation Estimates from a Hardwood Dominated Forest Watershed
... Global positioning systems (GPS) are widely used in en- vironmental research to identify locations of permanent sampling locations. Horizontal accuracy is suggested to be influenced primarily by GPS grade and canopy ...
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Ship rat demography and diet following possum control in a mixed podocarp-hardwood forest
... podocarp–hardwood forest was assessed using simple interference indices over 14 years (1990–2004) that included two aerial possum-poisoning operations (1994, ...
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Assessment of Management Strategy for Hardwood Floodplain Forest Ecosystem in Protected Area
... the forest ecosystem with the growth simulation model of the ...oodplain forest ecosystem in the Vrapac study site showed that the most important turning point in the development of the hardwood fl ...
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Invisible trees and meeting management needs: A comparison of distance sampling and traditional forest inventory methods.
... traditional forest inventory methods lead to more precise and accurate estimates of large tree abundance than distance sampling, even when the trees exist at low density over the sampled ...given forest ...
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