Occurrence of termites (Isoptera) on living and standing dead trees in a tropical dry forest in Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Termites play a key role as ecosystem engineers in numerous ecological processes though their role in the dynamics of wood degradation in tropical dry forests, particularly at the level of the crown canopy, has been little studied.
Nancy Calderón-Cortés +2 more
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Accounting for density reduction and structural loss in standing dead trees: Implications for forest biomass and carbon stock estimates in the United States [PDF]
Carbon Balance and Management, 2011 Background Standing dead trees are one component of forest ecosystem dead wood carbon (C) pools, whose national stock is estimated by the U.S. as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Domke Grant M +2 more
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Postfire dynamics of standing dead tree stock in northern boreal forests [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2022 Wildfire is one of the main forest disturbing factors in the boreal zone of Siberia that can cause significant changes in tree stands dynamics. Tree mortality caused by fire can significantly increase a standing dead tree pool that is one of the poorly ...
Mukhortova Liudmila +2 more
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Precipitation and wood type determines stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a subtropical forest [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceResearch on greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes has predominantly focused on subtropical soils, with far less attention given to emissions from tree stems. In particular, year-long simultaneous measurements of both soil and tree stem fluxes in these forests are ...
Guanghui Yang +7 more
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Temperature and Tree Size Explain the Mean Time to Fall of Dead Standing Trees across Large Scales [PDF]
Forests, 2023 Dead standing trees (DSTs) generally decompose slower than wood in contact with the forest floor. In many regions, DSTs are being created at an increasing rate due to accelerating tree mortality caused by climate change. Therefore, factors determining DST fall are crucial for predicting dead wood turnover time but remain poorly constrained.
Daniel B. Metcalfe +2 more
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Instance segmentation of standing dead trees in dense forest from aerial imagery using deep learning
ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022 Mapping standing dead trees, especially, in natural forests is very important for evaluation of the forest's health status, and its capability for storing Carbon, and the conservation of biodiversity.
Abubakar Sani-Mohammed +2 more
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Small Gap Dynamics in High Mountain Central European Spruce Forests—The Role of Standing Dead Trees in Gap Formation [PDF]
PlantsGap dynamics are driving many important processes in the development of temperate forest ecosystems. What remains largely unknown is how often the regeneration processes initialized by endogenous mortality of dominant and co-dominant canopy trees take ...
Denisa Sedmáková +8 more
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Microbial Communities in Standing Dead Trees in Ghost Forests are Largely Aerobic, Saprophytic, and Methanotrophic. [PDF]
Curr MicrobiolAbstractStanding dead trees (snags) are recognized for their influence on methane (CH4) cycling in coastal wetlands, yet the biogeochemical processes that control the magnitude and direction of fluxes across the snag-atmosphere interface are not fully elucidated.
Carmichael MJ +3 more
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Pine root exploration of standing dead tree trunks: a short-cut biocycling process
Forest Systems, 2023 Aim of study: To characterize the colonization of Pinus herrerae roots in trunks of dead standing trees and to evaluate the composition of roots and decomposing tissues of standing dead trees. Area of study. Jaguariaíva, Paraná state, Southern Brazil.
Rangel CONSALTER +6 more
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Classification of Tree Species as Well as Standing Dead Trees Using Triple Wavelength ALS in a Temperate Forest [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2019 Knowledge about forest structures, particularly of deadwood, is fundamental for understanding, protecting, and conserving forest biodiversity. While individual tree-based approaches using single wavelength airborne laserscanning (ALS) can successfully ...
Nina Amiri +3 more
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