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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
wiley   +1 more source

A Deep Learning Approach for High-Resolution Canopy Height Mapping in Indonesian Borneo by Fusing Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

Remote Sensing
Accurate mapping of forest canopy height is essential for monitoring forest structure, assessing biodiversity, and informing sustainable management practices.
Andrew J. Chamberlin, Zac Yung-Chun Liu, Christopher G. L. Cross, Julie Pourtois, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Yudi Setiawan, Kinari Webb, Skylar R. Hopkins, Susanne H. Sokolow, Giulio A. De Leo   +10 more
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Spatiotemporal Fire Patterns and Post‐fire Forest Change in Peru (2000–2021)

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire is increasingly more frequent and severe in many tropical regions, leading to significant forest loss, diminished biodiversity, and reduced Nature's contributions to people (NCPs). In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of fire in Peru and its regions, focusing on: (1) burned area, (2) size, and (3) number of fires, using ...
Maricel Móstiga, Dolors Armenteras, Jordi Vayreda, Javier Retana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coal Mining as a Driver of Land Use and Land Cover Change and Degradation: A Case in Moatize City, Mozambique

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coal remains a major global energy source despite ongoing environmental controversies, particularly, regarding climate change and landscape transformation. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) in the Moatize Coal Basin (MCB), Mozambique, between 1990 and 2024, with a specific focus on land ...
Ivan Latinho Naite, Basílio Fernandez Fernandez, Gilney Figueira Zebende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accuracy of Vegetation Height and Terrain Elevation Derived from Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Inventory Satellite in Forested Areas

Applied Sciences
Forest ecosystems serve as pivotal components of the global carbon cycle, with canopy height representing a critical biophysical parameter for quantifying ecosystem functionality, thereby holding substantial implications for forest resource management ...
Zhao Chen, Sijie He, Anmin Fu
doaj   +1 more source

Rediscovery of Passiflora clypeophylla (subgenus Decaloba): a highly threatened and narrow endemic species found within a karstic canyon in Guatemala

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Passiflora clypeophylla, an endemic species to the Guatemalan karstic forests last seen in 1889 and deemed extinct, was rediscovered in the Department of Alta Verapaz, east of Cobán. The species was known only from a single specimen hailed from the type locality, Rubel Cruz, where it has been found again. An additional location has been identified in a
J.R. Kuethe, Dennis I. Medina, Saban Sequen, Maura L. Quezada   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using FCD Mapper Software and Landsat Images to Detect Breaks in Forest Canopies in Landscapes in Australia and the Philippines [PDF]

, 2005
Using Landsat imagery, forest canopy density (FCD), estimated with the FCD Mapper (Mapper), was correlated with stand height for 20 field plots, measured in native forest at Noosa Heads, south-east Queensland, Australia.
Baynes, Jack S.
core   +2 more sources

Adjustment of a turbulent boundary layer to a 'canopy' of roughness elements [PDF]

, 2003
A model is developed for the adjustment of the spatially averaged time-mean flow of a deep turbulent boundary layer over small roughness elements to a canopy of larger three-dimensional roughness elements.
Belcher, SE, Hunt, JCR, Jerram, N
core   +1 more source

Breynia phuongiana (Phyllanthaceae), a new species from the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A new species, Breynia phuongiana (Phyllanthaceae subgen. Sauropus), is described and illustrated from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It is morphologically similar to B. beillei, B. bonii, and B. thorelii, but differs in having oblong‐elliptic leaves, sepals marked with reddish striations, an androphore exceeding 1 mm in length, and distinctly ...
Van Canh Nguyen, Thi Thuy Nhan Tran, Ba Vuong Truong, Leonid V. Averyanov, Thi Hoa Nguyen, Thanh Nha Phan‐Thi, Nguyen‐Khanh‐Trinh Tram   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canopy height damage by Typhoon Songda in Northern Hokkaido, Japan, in 2004

Environmental Research: Ecology
The increasing need for the risk assessment of disastrous wind disturbance, especially by tropical cyclones (TCs), has been emphasized because the number of intense TCs is projected to increase due to global warming, though there are some discrepancies ...
TaeOh Kwon, Hideaki Shibata, Tetsuya Takemi, Kentaro Takagi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source