The effect of roads on spider monkeys' home range and mobility in a heterogeneous regenerating forest [PDF]
, 2017 Arboreal fauna living in tropical ecosystems may be particularly affected by roads given their dependency on forest cover and the high vulnerability of such ecosystems to changes. Over a period of 4 yr, we followed subgroups of spider monkeys living in a
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Impact of traffic characteristics on forest roads due to forest managemen
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2005 Traffic load and transported quantity due to forest management were analysed on the forest roads in the forest district Dragatuš, SE Slovenia. On the basis of timber gravitating to particular sections, the traffic load and transported quantity were ...
Igor Potočnik +2 more
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Assessing landscape functional connectivity in a forest carnivore using path selection functions [PDF]
, 2015 Context Understanding connectivity patterns in relation to habitat fragmentation is essential to landscape management. However, connectivity is often judged from expert opinion or species occurrence patterns, with very few studies considering the actual ...
Beja, Pedro +3 more
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A Methodological Approach Exploiting Modern Techniques for Forest Road Network Planning
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2016 A well-developed road network allows all forest activities, including wood harvesting, firefighting and recreational activities. However, forest road construction and maintenance involve economic and environmental costs.
Francesco Neri +3 more
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Evaluation of drainage system of forest roads in Iran: Darabkola forest roads
Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 2011 It is necessary that forest roads be constructed according to standards considering the importance of forest roads in the forestry plans and sustainable management. The Standard Drainage system is one of the most important technical buildings in the forest road construction. Darabkola forests have been located in the central part of the northern margin
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A heuristic model for determining cut and fills areas for road designing in different offsets of ground cross section [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 2016 Earthwork operation is a complicated part in forest road construction that accounts for ca. 25% of the associated costs. Thus, accurate forest road profile planning is an important factor of determining earthwork volume.
Razie Babapour +3 more
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Ayer Hitam Forest (AHFR) from space using satellite remote sensing [PDF]
, 1999 There is a high demand to map and monitor the land use and assess their condition for ecological and economic reasons. Information on existing land and cover and their spatial distribution is a pre-requisite for any planning, development and management ...
Ismail, Mohd Hasmadi +1 more
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Assessment on skidding roads and densities
Turkish Journal of Forestry, 2020 Terrestrial road networks constitute the main transportation and transportation infrastructure for opening up of the forests in an optimal way. Skidding distances are tried to be shortened by constructing skidding and / or tractor roads as tertiary roads
Mehmet Eker
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The present condition of forest roads as a result of their past maintenance [PDF]
, 2017 Gozdne ceste so namenjene zlasti gospodarjenju z gozdom, in prav temu je prilagojeno načrtovanje njihove rabe in vzdrževanja. Naraščanje pomena negozdarskih rab gozdnih cest vodi k višanju standarda vzdrževanja in posledično k trajnemu pomanjkanju ...
Hribernik, Boštjan, Potočnik, Igor
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Filling in the Clearance of a Forest Road Cross-Section in Beech Forest
Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2008 This paper deals with the required width of forest road formation. Forest roads are necessary for emergency forest management. Besides positive effects, forest roads also bring negative effects.
Igor Potočnik +4 more
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