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Environmental screening tools for assessment of infrastructure plans based on biodiversity preservation and global warming (PEIT, Spain). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Most Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) research has been concerned with SEA as a procedure, and there have been relatively few developments and tests of analytical methodologies.
Alshuwaikhat   +54 more
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Connectivity of Natura 2000 forest sites in Europe

open access: yes, 2014
Background/Purpose: In the context of the European Biodiversity policy, the Green Infrastructure Strategy is one supporting tool to mitigate fragmentation, inter-alia to increase the spatial and functional connectivity between protected and unprotected ...
Caudullo, Giovanni   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Assessment of planning status of roads in Yasouj Forest Park from the natural landscapes aspects [PDF]

open access: yesمجله جنگل ایران, 2015
Due to increasing demand for recreational activities in forested area, forest parks are being developed rapidly. A well-organized road network is very important infrastructure to access this kind of area.
علیرضا صالحی   +2 more
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Environmental Costs of Government-Sponsored Agrarian Settlements in Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Brazil has presided over the most comprehensive agrarian reform frontier colonization program on Earth, in which ~1.2 million settlers have been translocated by successive governments since the 1970's, mostly into forested hinterlands of Brazilian ...
A Brandão Jr   +54 more
core   +2 more sources

Forest Road Access Decisions for Woods Chip Trailers Using Ant Colony Optimization and Breakeven Analysis

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2013
Non-conventional products provide opportunities for the forest industry to increase economic value from forests; however, these products may require transport by specialized vehicles.
John Sessions, Storm Beck
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Road geometric design and its effect on some chemical and biochemical indicators of soil of adjacent forest stands [PDF]

open access: yesمجله جنگل ایران, 2017
Forest roads are the most important infrastructure to access and apply the forest management activities, which they can impose a significant impact on adjacent stands. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the forest road geometric
Saeed Rahbari Sisakht   +4 more
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Clearcutting in Appalachia: Impacts on Stream Water Quality in an Appalachian Watershed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Clearcutting forests has the potential to impact the water quality of high water headwater streams. In this study, we measured the effect of forest clearcut events on parameters of stream water quality within Michaux State Forest.
Kaewwilai, Alyssa J.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Role of Landscape Connectivity in Planning and Implementing Conservation and Restoration Priorities. Issues in Ecology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Landscape connectivity, the extent to which a landscape facilitates the movements of organisms and their genes, faces critical threats from both fragmentation and habitat loss.
Beier, Paul   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Study of Forest Road Effect on Tree Community and Stand Structure in Three Italian and Iranian Temperate Forests

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2018
Roads are built in forests for two main reasons, but always in function of management of forest ecosystems, and these reasons are to provide access to the forest area for transportation mobility and wood extraction. This creates a relatively even network
Rodolfo Picchio   +4 more
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Research on principles of making access to mountain forests by forest road networki

open access: yesJournal of Forest Science, 2005
We consider making access to forests and forest complexes as an optimal allocation of routes of forest roads, land and air communications and transport routes with their optimal structure (composition, proportion of separate types) being implemented ...
P. Klč
doaj   +1 more source

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