The intensive monitoring plots (Level II) of ICP Forests serve to examine the effects of air
pollution and other stress factors on forest condition, including tree vitality. However, tree …

Vegetation structure is an important parameter in fire risk assessment and fire behavior
modeling. We present a new approach deriving the structure of the upper canopy by …

Abstract The southeastern United States is among the most productive forested areas in the
world. Four endemic southern pine species–loblolly, longleaf, shortleaf, and slash …

Summary 1 This paper assesses whether tree‐ring patterns found in recently dead mountain
pines (Pinus mugo Turra) infected by Armillaria spp. differ from those infected by …

Competition is a well-documented contributor to tree mortality in temperate forests, with
numerous studies documenting a relationship between tree death and the competitive …

Tree mortality as a crucial element of natural forest dynamics is still a poorly understood
process. Abrupt growth decreases are known to occur several years or decades before …

We assessed:(1) the relative importance of different macro-and microhabitat characteristics
for explaining the occurrence of tree cavities and their occupancy by hole-nesting …

Drought‐related tree mortality had become a widespread phenomenon in forests around the
globe. This process leading to these events and its complexity is not fully understood. Trees …

Background tree mortality is a complex process that requires large sample sizes and long
timescales to disentangle the suite of ecological factors that collectively contribute to tree …

Abstract Dynamic Vegetation Models (DVM s) are designed to be suitable for simulating
forest succession and species range dynamics under current and future conditions based on …