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Effect of heat shock on the germination of seeds of the species Acacia senegal L. and Acacia seyal Del. from sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia).

Forest Systems, 2019
Aim of the study: Understanding post-fire germination of tree species in arid and semi-arid zones of sub-Saharan Africa. Area of study: Ethiopian Acacia senegal L. and Acacia seyal Del. forests. Material and methods: Seeds were subjected to heat shocks
Celia Herrero, Amelework Kassa, Valentín Pando, Felipe Bravo, Ricardo Alía   +4 more
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Retention of Matured Trees to Conserve Fungal Diversity and Edible Sporocarps from Short-Rotation Pinus radiata Plantations in Ethiopia

Journal of Fungi, 2021
This study is conducted in the short-rotation plantations from the Afromontane Region of Ethiopia. Sporocarps were sampled weekly in a set of permanent plots (100 m2) in young, medium-aged, and mature Pinus radiata (Don) plantations.
Tatek Dejene, Emanda Worku, Pablo Martín-Pinto   +2 more
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On the reproductive biology of Salacia fruticosa Wall. ex M.A. Lawson - an endemic medicinal plant of the Western Ghats, india

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
Salacia fruticosa Wall. ex M.A. Lawson, an endemic species was studied for the reproductive biology as this species showed reduced fruit set and natural regeneration.
K. Subin, P. A. Jose, T. V. Sarath
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Quality assessment of open sourced digital elevation models in southeast coast of India

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2021
Digital elevation model (DEM) provides elevation values of the terrain. At present several open source DEMs are available and its vertical accuracy varies from place to place. The present study assessed the vertical accuracy of 1 arc-sec data of Advanced
Renganathan Mahesh, Kaladevi Jayadevan Sarunjith, Sambandan Rajakumari, Ramakrishnan Muruganandam, Ramachandran Ramesh   +4 more
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Towards sustainable forest management strategies with MOEAs [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020
Sustainable forest management is a crucial element in combating climate change, plastic pollution, and other unsolved challenges of the 21st century. Forests not only produce wood - a renewable resource that is increasingly replacing fossil-based materials - but also preserve biodiversity and store massive amounts of carbon.
Suominen, Antti, Malo, Pekka, Tahvonen, Olli, Blank, Julian, Deb, Kalyanmoy, Back, Philipp   +6 more
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Retrieval of Boreal Forest Heights Using an Improved Random Volume over Ground (RVoG) Model Based on Repeat-Pass Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: The Case Study of Saihanba, China

Remote Sensing, 2021
Spaceborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PolInSAR) has the potential to deal with large-scale forest height inversion. However, the inversion is influenced by strong temporal decorrelation interference resulting from a large ...
Yu Mao, Opelele Omeno Michel, Ying Yu, Wenyi Fan, Ao Sui, Zhihui Liu, Guoming Wu   +6 more
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Mosaic forest management at landscape scale to enhance fungal diversity and production, in a context of forest fire-prevention in Mediterranean ecosystems

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Landscapes of oak (Quercus) forests alternated with extensive fields dominated by rockroses (Cistus) are widespread throughout the Mediterranean Basin. Due to the recurrency of fires and the mycological potential of both Quercus forests and Cistus fields,
Alba Magarzo, Ignacio Sanz-Benito, Olaya Mediavilla, María Hernández-Rodríguez, Juan Andrés Oria-de-Rueda, Tatek Dejene, Pablo Martín-Pinto   +6 more
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Estimate the Probability of Forest Fires in Heilongjiang, Northeast China

Remote Sensing, 2021
Although low-intensity forest fires are a necessary part of healthy echo system, high-intensity forest fires continue to affect the diversity of forest ecosystems and species.
Zechuan Wu, Mingze Li, Bin Wang, Ying Quan, Jianyang Liu   +4 more
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Long-term effects of mixed planting on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the roots and soils of Juglans mandshurica plantations

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Establishing mixed plantations is an effective way to improve soil fertility and increase forest productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are obligate symbiotic fungi that can promote mineral nutrient absorption and regulate ...
Li Ji, Yan Zhang, Yuchun Yang, Lixue Yang, Na Yang, Depeng Zhang   +5 more
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Hierarchical forest management planning and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest [PDF]

The Forestry Chronicle, 2001
In keeping with international efforts to encourage sustainable forest management, new legislation, regulations, and certification criteria have been brought into effect across boreal regions of the world in the past decade or less. These initiatives have established hierarchical systems of forest management planning that consider multiple uses of the ...
Tittler, R., Messier, C., Burton, P.J.
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