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Understory responses to mechanical removal of pinyon-juniper overstory

, 2014
Declining Colorado mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations have necessitated improved habitat management techniques. In particular, oil and gas development in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado has impacted critical winter range, creating a need for treatments that will increase forage, and especially palatable shrub species.
Stephens, Garrett J., author, Paschke, Mark, advisor, Johnston, Danielle, advisor, Meiman, Paul, committee member, Wilson, Ken, committee member   +4 more
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Predicting Post-Fire Change in West Virginia, USA from Remotely-Sensed Data [PDF]

, 2016
Prescribed burning is used in West Virginia, USA to return the important disturbance process of fire to oak and oak-pine forests. Species composition and structure are often the main goals for re-establishing fire with less emphasis on fuel reduction or
Maxwell, Aaron E., Strager, Michael Strager P, Thomas-Van Gundy, Melissa   +2 more
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I Thought the Earth Remembered Me [PDF]

, 2019
The forest is teeming with activity: fungi transform dead logs into nutrients, roots entangle themselves with the earth, and strong winds break resilient boughs. Like the forest, the human body functions according to a complex system of agents - from the
Bates, Hannah
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The Overstory (2018) : S'enforester avec Richard Powers

S'enforester. Recherches buissonnières
Proposer aux femmes et aux hommes de « s’enforester », pour tenter de remédier aux « extinctions d’expérience de la nature » (Robert Michael Pyle) est l’un des objectifs que l’Atelier d’écologie politique de Toulouse s’est fixé, pour contribuer de façon originale au partage des savoirs.
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Klimata pārmaiņas Ričarda Pouersa romānā "The Overstory"

, 2022
The paper studies the climate change phenomenon in Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory to analyse it from the ecocritical perspective. The methods of this study include theoretical research of literature on climate change, its portrayal in fiction and ecocriticism, as well as empirical study (close reading and ecocritical analysis).
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Relationship of species diversity between overstory trees and understory herbs along the environmental gradients in the Tianshan Wild Fruit Forests, Northwest China

Journal of Arid Land, 2020
Junhui Cheng, Xiaojun Shi, P. Fan, Xiaobing Zhou, Jiandong Sheng, Yuanming Zhang   +5 more
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Subjetividade verde: ficção e identidade em The overstory

Porto das Letras, 2020
Este artigo tem como objetivo investigar como o romance The overstory (2018), de Richard Powers, desafia a construção literária tradicional ao configurar em sua narrativa um senso de identidade a entes não-humanos – no caso específico da obra, árvores.
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Investigation of Techniques for Inventorying Forested Regions. Volume 1: Reflectance Modeling and Empirical Multispectral Analysis of Forest Canopy Components [PDF]

The author has identified the following significant results. Effects of vegetation density on overall canopy reflectance differed dramatically, depending on spectral band, base material, and vegetation type.
Malila, W. A., Nalepka, R. F., Sadowski, F. G.   +2 more
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Using the TIMS to estimate evapotranspiration from a forest [PDF]

The main goals were: (1) to characterize the evapotranspiration (Et) of two forested watersheds using direct measurement techniques, and (2) to evaluate if remotely sensed surface temperatures could be used to estimate Et from the same watersheds.
Teskey, Robert
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Remote sensing/vegetation classification [PDF]

The CALVEG classification system for identification of vegetation is described. This hierarchical system responds to classification requirements and to interpretation of vegetation at various description levels, from site description to broad ...
Parker, I. E.
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