Towards a generalisation of the spatial species mingling diversity index [PDF]
Ecological IndicatorsSpecies diversity is an important notion of all ecosystems and much contributes to its inner functioning. Currently biodiversity is threatened by global changes including climate change.
Arne Pommerening, Aila Särkkä
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Tree-Level Harvest Optimization for Structure-Based Forest Management Based on the Species Mingling Index [PDF]
Forests, 2015 This novel research investigated the use of a heuristic process to inform tree-level harvest decisions guided by the need to maximize the interspersion of tree species across a forest. In the heuristic process, a species mingling value for each tree was computed using both (1) neighbors that were simply of a different species than the reference tree ...
Pete Bettinger, Mengping Tang
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Close-to-nature management positively improves the spatial structure of Masson pine forest stands [PDF]
Web Ecology, 2021 Close-to-nature management (CTNM) has been proposed as a promising forestry management approach to improve the structure and quality of forests, which integrates wood production and ecological service functions.
X. Fang, W. Tan, X. Gao, Z. Chai
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Tree Species Diversity and Spatial Distribution of Aleppo Pine Stands in Northeastern Algeria
South-East European Forestry, 2021 The spatial pattern of species is one of the key studied parameters in ecology so as to better understand the ecological processes and the functioning of forest ecosystems. This paper describes the classification of structural indices measuring the alpha
Insaf Hani +2 more
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Estimation of Structural Diversity of Acer campestre Stands by using of Complexity Structural Diversity Index in Arasbaran Forest [PDF]
Zīst/shināsī-i Giyāhī-i Īrān, 2019 Measuring the forest structural diversity is a useful and important way to predict the growth and the future development activities of the forest stands.
Roya Abedi
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Evaluation level of tree diversity in the Hyrcanian forests using complex structural diversity index (Case study: beech-hornbeam type, Nav-e Asalem, Gilan) [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 2017 Stand structure and species diversity are two useful parameters for complex assessment of forest biodiversity, and provide important information for management and decision making for appropriate silvicultural system.
Peiman Farhadi +2 more
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Quantitative Analysis of Forest Structure at Growing Up Volume Stage in the Evaluation of Natural Beech Stands (Case Study: Kheyroud Forest) [PDF]
مجله جنگل ایران, 2021 The structure of forest stands changes over time and under the influence of local disturbances, these changes are referred as the dynamics of forest stands. Changes in the structure of forest stands result in the formation of development phases.
M. Moridi +3 more
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The Forestry Chronicle, 2018 Forest stand structure plays an important role in rainfall interception and is a focal point in forest hydrology. Previous studies mainly looked at the effect of non-spatial attributes of stands while a few studies addressed the influence of spatial ...
Chunxia Liu +5 more
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Effect of management intervention on structure of natural stands (Case Study: Gorazbon District of Kheirud Forest) [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 2017 Appropriate management of forest requires indices that can provide adequate information about forest structure condition and its changes with the least cost and time.
Mohsen Javanmiri Pour +4 more
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Spatial and compositional structure of European oak urban forests in Kyiv city, Ukraine
Journal of Forest Science, 2021 Forest dimensional structure and tree species composition strictly define ecosystem resilience, success of its functioning and development. Spatial structure of forest compartments provides an additional information on the forest stand heterogeneity. The
Maksym Matsala +5 more
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