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A Stochastic Simulation Method for Estimating Vegetation Interception Capacity Based on Mechanical‐Geometric Analysis

Water Resources Research
Vegetation interception is a vital ecohydrological process, and the interception capacity is a key parameter to many classical interception models. However, current canopy interception capacity estimation methods largely depend on measured interception ...
Zixi Li, Fuqiang Tian, Di Wang, Zimu Peng   +3 more
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Estimating Rainfall Interception of Vegetation Canopy from MODIS Imageries in Southern China

Remote Sensing, 2019
The interception of rainfall by vegetation canopies plays an important role in the hydrologic process of ecosystems. Most estimates of canopy rainfall interception in present studies are mainly through field observations at the plot region.
Jianping Wu, Liyang Liu, Caihong Sun, Yongxian Su, Changjian Wang, Ji Yang, Jiayuan Liao, Xiaolei He, Qian Li, Chaoqun Zhang, Hongou Zhang   +10 more
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The impact of plant density and spatial arrangement on light interception on cotton crop and seed cotton yield: an overview

Journal of Cotton Research, 2020
Light attenuation within a row of crops such as cotton is influenced by canopy architecture, which is defined by size, shape and orientation of shoot components.
Blessing CHAPEPA, Nhamo MUDADA, Rangarirai MAPURANGA   +2 more
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Boreal forest CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration predicted by nine ecosystem process models: Intermodel comparisons and relationships to field measurements [PDF]

, 2001
Nine ecosystem process models were used to predict CO2 and water vapor exchanges by a 150-year-old black spruce forest in central Canada during 1994–1996 to evaluate and improve the models.
Amthor, Jeffrey S, Chen, J M, Clein, Joy S, Frolking, Steve, Goulden, M L, Grant, Robert F, Kimball, John, King, A W, McGuire, A D, Nikolov, Ned T, Potter, Christopher S, Wang, S, Wofsy, Steven C   +12 more
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Moose indifferent to canopy loss from forest disturbance by bark beetles

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Moose showed strikingly similar patterns of habitat selection before and after widespread forest disturbance following an infestation of bark beetles. Our findings indicate that beetle‐kill does not appreciably alter habitat quality for moose and highlight the importance of riparian areas in sustaining moose as they contend with changing forests ...
Alexander B. May, Rebecca L. Levine, Lee Knox, Corey Class, Matthew J. Kauffman, Kevin L. Monteith   +5 more
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Carbon Stock and Environmental Variations of Typical Plantations in Mufu Mountain in Hubei Province, China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest ecosystems play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. As a significant terrestrial carbon sink, plantations exhibit carbon stock patterns that are shaped by tree species composition, stand structure, and environmental conditions. Here, we investigated typical plantation types in the Mufu Mountain, Hubei Province.
Mingyang Ding, Yi Yang, Jiaoyang Xu, Shaoqiang Wang, Lunche Wang, Chunbo Huang   +5 more
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Effects of canopy characteristics and rainfall intensity on canopy water storage: A simulated rainfall study on the broadleaf and needleleaf species in subtropical China

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
Study region: Jiangxi Province, China Study focus: Canopy interception is influenced by both structural and rainfall characteristics. yet, the relative contributions remain unclear due to their complex interactions. A process-based experimental study was
Qi Chen, Wenping Deng, Tianze Duan, Shijie Li, Xiaobin Fu, Yuanqiu Liu, Miao Chen, Haisheng Cai, Liping Guo, Xueling Zhang, Kuiling Zu, Shengsheng Xiao, Songhua Xie   +12 more
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Voxel carving‐based 3D reconstruction of sorghum identifies genetic determinants of light interception efficiency

Plant Direct, 2020
Changes in canopy architecture traits have been shown to contribute to yield increases. Optimizing both light interception and light interception efficiency of agricultural crop canopies will be essential to meeting the growing food needs.
Mathieu Gaillard, Chenyong Miao, James C. Schnable, Bedrich Benes   +3 more
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Wildfires' Cost for Societal Welfare: Economic Evaluation of Forestry Ecosystem Services Losses in Southern Italy

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest ecosystem services (ESs) are garnering increasing public attention as awareness grows regarding society's fundamental dependence on them for well‐being. Forest fires, one of the major disturbances of ESs, are becoming more frequent and destructive, exacerbated in part by climate change.
Emanuele Spada, Giacomo Falcone, Salvatore Praticò, Maria Carmela Benedetto, Giovanni Gulisano, Nathalie Iofrida, Anna Irene De Luca   +6 more
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Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Transmitted PAR under High-Density and Super High-Density Olive Orchards

Agriculture, 2021
We quantified the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) interception in a high-density (HD) and a super high-density (SHD) or hedgerow olive system, by measuring the PAR transmitted under the canopy along transects at increasing distance from the ...
Adolfo Rosati, Damiano Marchionni, Dario Mantovani, Luigi Ponti, Franco Famiani   +4 more
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