Competition for soil resources forces a trade-off between enhancing tree productivity and understorey species richness in managed beech forests

R Hrivnák, M Bošeľa, M Slezák, M Lukac… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditionally focussed on maximising productivity, forest management increasingly has to
consider other functions performed by the forest stands, such as biodiversity conservation …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Forest Ecosystems and Climate Interplay: A Review

Q Feng, H Yang, Y Liu, Z Liu, S Xia, Z Wu… - Environmental …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
This review comprehensively examines the multifunctional role of forest ecosystems in
climate regulation and the consequential impacts of climate change on these critical biomes …

Validation of forest vegetation simulator model finds overprediction of carbon growth in California

C Herbert, JS Fried, V Butsic - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Using regression-based, bootstrapped equivalence tests, and remeasured inventory plot
data from thousands of plots across California, we found that the Forest Vegetation …

Accuracy of a lidar-based individual tree detection and attribute measurement algorithm developed to inform forest products supply chain and resource management

AM Sparks, AMS Smith - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Individual Tree Detection (ITD) algorithms that use Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data can
provide accurate tree locations and measurements of tree-level attributes that are required …

Representation of regeneration dynamics in growth and yield models: a review

WR Dempster - Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Models of forest regeneration dynamics have been less widely applied in forest
management than those representing growth and mortality in later stages of stand …

[HTML][HTML] Commercial forest carbon protocol over-credit bias delimited by zero-threshold carbon accounting

BDV Marino, N Bautista - Trees, Forests and People, 2022 - Elsevier
The validity of forest carbon offsets is increasingly called into question. However, despite the
use of commercial forest carbon protocols (CFCPs) for more than two decades, claiming∼ …

Best practices for calibration of forest landscape models using fine-scaled reference information

GC Reese, BR Sturtevant, CC Dymond… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Forest Landscape Models (FLMs) project responses to different climate, disturbance, and
management scenarios and can inform decision-making that shapes ecosystems. However …

Tree Crown Affects Biomass Allocation and Its Response to Site Conditions and the Density of Platycladus orientalis Linnaeus Plantation

L He, X Zhang, X Wang, H Ullah, Y Liu, J Duan - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tree crown plays a crucial role in the process of photosynthesis and the formation of
biomass. The site conditions and stand density have a significant impact on tree and crown …

An iterative site-scale approach to calibrate and corroborate successional processes within a forest landscape model

LA Fitts, JS Fraser, BR Miranda, GM Domke… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest landscape simulation models (FLM) have been extensively used for projecting
ecosystem dynamics and carbon fluxes. However, more guidance and methods for formal …