A comparison of three canopy interception models for a leafless mixed deciduous forest stand in the eastern United States [PDF]
, 2007 Canopy interception of incident precipitation is a critical component of the forest water balance during each of the four seasons. Models have been developed to predict precipitation interception from standard meteorological variables because of ...
Frost, Ethan E. +2 more
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PSOOptimizedFast Segmentation Algorithm for 3D Otsu Forest Canopy Image
Journal of Harbin University of Science and Technology, 2019 Forest canopy image segmentation is a key step to forest canopy parameters using digital image processing methods According to the characteristics of forest canopy fisheye images with complex background and high resolution, this paper proposed a PSO ...
ZHU Liang-kuan +3 more
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Forest canopy analysis in the Alpine environment: comparison among assessment methods
Forest@, 2013 Forest canopy analysis in the Alpine environment: comparison among assessment methods. Forest canopy is an important ecological feature of forest stands and can be expressed as Leaf Area Index (LAI) or canopy cover percentage.
Pastorella F, Paletto A
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Parallel functional and stoichiometric trait shifts in South American and African forest communities with elevation [PDF]
, 2017 The Amazon and Congo basins are the two largest continuous blocks of tropical forest with a central role for global biogeochemical cycles and ecology. However, both biomes differ in structure and species richness and composition.
C. Taveirne +8 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 Urban forests are critical infrastructure for mitigating environmental and social challenges cities face. Municipalities and non-governmental entities, among others, often set goals (e.g., tree planting or canopy targets) to support urban forests and ...
Michael L. Treglia +4 more
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Vertical stratification of selected Hymenoptera in a remnant forest of the Po Plain (Italy, Lombardy) (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Communities of the canopy of temperate forests are still relatively unexplored. Furthermore, very little is known on how vertical stratification for some insect groups is related to biological strategies.
Cerretti, Pierfilippo +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Investigating patterns of phylogenetic structure across different life stages of tree species in forests is crucial to understanding forest community assembly, and investigating forest gap influence on the phylogenetic structure of forest regeneration is
Yi Jin, Hong Qian, Mingjian Yu
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Estimating Forest Canopy Height Using MODIS BRDF Data Emphasizing Typical-Angle Reflectances
Remote Sensing, 2019 Forest-canopy height is an important parameter for the estimation of forest biomass and terrestrial carbon flux and climate-change research at regional and global scales.
Lei Cui +9 more
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Comparison of forest attributes derived from two terrestrial lidar systems. [PDF]
, 2013 Terrestrial lidar (TLS) is an emerging technology for deriving forest attributes, including conventional inventory and canopy characterizations. However, little is known about the influence of scanner specifications on derived forest parameters.
Astrup, Rasmus +5 more
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Influence of voxel size on forest canopy height estimates using full-waveform airborne LiDAR data
Forest Ecosystems, 2020 Background Forest canopy height is a key forest structure parameter. Precisely estimating forest canopy height is vital to improve forest management and ecological modelling.
Cheng Wang +5 more
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