Temperate Forest
Litter decomposition and nutrient cycling in temperate forest of Kumaun region
... Background & Aim: The magnitude of litter fall and its decomposition in a forest ecosystem impart a crucial role in nutrient supply to plant as well as microorganisms. The present study was conducted to ...
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Legacies of past land use have a stronger effect on forest carbon exchange than future climate change in a temperate forest landscape
... Abstract. Forest ecosystems play an important role in the global climate system and are thus intensively discussed in the context of climate change ...decades temperate forests were a carbon (C) sink to the ...
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Mapping temperate forest phenology using tower, UAV, and terrestrial-based sensors
... Abstract: Phenology is one of the ubiquitous fingerprints of climate change on our ecosystems. Monitoring the spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation phenology is thus critical. A wide range of sensors have been used to ...
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Modeling dissolved organic carbon in temperate forest soils: TRIPLEX-DOC model development and validation
... Figure 7 shows the DOC concentration sensitivity experi- ments to variation in sorption (m) and desorption (b) using the Taylor diagram (Taylor, 2001). The correlation coeffi- cients were used to quantify the similarity ...
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Vegetation Indices for Mapping Canopy Foliar Nitrogen in a Mixed Temperate Forest
... There is a large body of literature focusing on the estimation of nitrogen in crops for monitoring and predicting crop yield [37,46,47,62]. However, to our knowledge, little research has been conducted for validating the ...
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Persistence and potential causes of reduced net CH4 consumption under elevated CO2 in a temperate forest
... submitted). The quantity and quality of plant exudates vary among plant species (Smith 1976, Ström et al. 1994). Likewise, the quantity and chemistry of plant exudates from roots or leaf litter are typically seasonal ...
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Regeneration Pattern in Subtropical and Moist Temperate Forest Stands of Kashmir Himalayas
... Abstract Forest regeneration is a thrust area of vegetation studies having important implications and contributions for sustainable forest ...moist temperate and subtropical forest sites in ...
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Relationship between the sexual and the vegetative organs in a Polygonatum humile (Liliaceae) population in a temperate forest gap
... Shade-tolerant temperate forest herbs devote energy to sexual reproduction to a lesser ex- tent than grassland herbs (Bierzychudek ...a forest gap might keep at least 2~3 leaves for asexual ...
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Analysis of Pseudoreplicants to Evaluate Natural Regeneration after Applying Prescribed Burns in a Temperate Forest of Mexico
... Before treatments, the plots of both firing methods did not differ significantly in their number of seedlings. Also, their mean heights were not significantly different. This meant that the two firing methods were ...
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Estimated Carbon Sequestration in a Temperate Forest in Idaho of USA
... the forest based on the climatic variability of spatial climate data for a 33-year period from 1981 to ...this forest are highly dependent on the severity, the higher, the more C loss to atmosphere due to ...
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LAI and Leaf Biomass Allometric Equations for Three Common Tree Species in a Hyrcanian Temperate Forest
... Despite the importance of Hyrcanian forests for biodiversity conservation, a few studies with biomass destruction has been done to predict biomass and carbon pools from this forest and there is a lack of knowledge ...
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Estimating the carbon budget and maximizing future carbon uptake for a temperate forest region in the U.S.
... biological forest C cycle was simulated using a spatially-explicit version of Biome-BGC that has been described previously ...the forest type determination and the location of harvested ...USFS ...
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Geographic body size variation in ectotherms: effects of seasonality on an anuran from the southern temperate forest
... Our analyses showed that, of the hypotheses tested, the starvation hypothesis is the most consistent with our results of adult body size variation in R. darwinii . Consid- ering the known role of temperature on ...
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Tree Diversity Reduces Fungal Endophyte Richness and Diversity in a Large-Scale Temperate Forest Experiment
... Abstract: Although decades of research have typically demonstrated a positive correlation between biodiversity of primary producers and associated trophic levels, the ecological drivers of this association are poorly ...
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Water-mediated changes in plant–plant and biological soil crust–plant interactions in a temperate forest ecosystem
... The aim of this study was to assess whether water avail- ability differentially affects the biotic effects of BSCs and pioneer shrubs on the early plant life-history stage of tree seedling growth. This study uses ...
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Decadal fates and impacts of nitrogen additions on temperate forest carbon storage: a data–model comparison
... In addition, measurement data from other biomes are needed to evaluate the global impact of CLM5’s estimates of N recovery in plant and soil pools. Currently, most tracer experiments are in North America and Europe, ...
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Tree Species Traits Determine the Success of LiDAR-based Crown Mapping in a Mixed Temperate Forest
... typically characterized by dense mixed species stands with closed canopies, where crowns often overlap and have irregular shape. Given the complexity of the forests and the dominance of hardwood trees, it remains unclear ...
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Spatiotemporal variations in productivity and water use efficiency across a temperate forest landscape of Northeast China
... We used the multiple linear regression model to examine the influence of three categories of variables: vegetation fac- tors (forest types, mode of establishment, age class, and stand density), site traits ...
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Neighbourhood and stand structure affect stemflow generation in a heterogeneous deciduous temperate forest
... mixed forest, allowing for more efficient niche and space occupation (Frech et ...forming forest patches of structure-induced enhanced and reduced ...
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Characteristics and Growing Stocks Volume of Forest Stand in Dry Temperate Forest of Chilas Gilgit Baltistan
... provincial forest departments in a time span of 5 - 10 ...of forest resources and frequent ...2005 Forest Resources Assessment to ...any forest type of Pakistan and the FRA (2005) estimates ...
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