The advent of lidar has revolutionized the way we observe and measure vegetation structure
from the ground and from above and represents a major advance toward the quantification …

Abstract Purpose of Review The increasing availability of three-dimensional point clouds,
including both airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry, allow for the …

Lidar transforms how we map ecosystems, but its prospect for measuring ecosystem
dynamics is limited by practical factors, such as variation in lidar acquisition and lack of …

Increasing drought frequency and severity in a warming climate threaten forest ecosystems
with widespread tree deaths. Canopy structure is important in regulating tree mortality during …

Despite considerable research demonstrating that biodiversity increases productivity in
forests and regulates herbivory and pathogen damage, there remain gaps in our …

In burned landscapes, the recruitment success of the tree dominant species mainly depends
on plant competition mechanisms operating at fine spatial scale, that may hinder resource …

We used Landsat-based measures of annual evapotranspiration (ET) to explore the effects
of wildfires on vegetation water use across California's Sierra Nevada. Wildfires decreased …

Diameter frequency distributions provide essential information for estimating timber
assortment, monitoring carbon stocks, and formulating forest management measures. In this …

Unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning (UAVLS) systems present a relatively new means
of remote sensing and are increasingly applied in the field of forest ecology and …

Crown base height (CBH) is an essential tree biophysical parameter for many applications
in forest management, forest fuel treatment, wildfire modeling, ecosystem modeling and …